True Tales of American Life - Hardcover

Auster, Paul (ed.)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571210503 ISBN 13: 9780571210503

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2002

Synopsis

The requirement for selection was that each of the stories should be true, and each of the writers should not have been previously published. The collection that has emerged provides a richly varied and authentic voice for the American people, whose lives, loves, griefs, regrets, joys and sense of humour are vividly and honestly recounted throughout, and adeptly organised by Auster into themed sections. The section composed of war stories stretches as far back as the Civil War, still the defining moment in American history; while the sequence of 'Meditations' concludes the volume with a true and abiding sense of transcendence.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Auster was born in New Jersey in 1947. After attending Columbia University he lived in France for four years. Since 1974 he has published poems, essays, novels, screenplays and translations. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Review:

'It is difficult to think of another book published this year, and probably any book to be published next year, that is so simple and so obvious, so excellent in intention and so elegant in its execution, and which displays such wisdom and such knowledge of human life in all its varieties.' Ian Sansom, Guardian; 'Fantastic... Glows with the truth of shared human experience.' The Face; 'Astonishing... This is writing at its very finest.' Independent

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0571210503
• ISBN 13: 9780571210503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400