Collected Prose (2010)

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Paul Auster

06/22/2010
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<p><b>The expanded edition of an essential collection of writings, essays, and interviews from Paul Auster, one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters.<br></b><br> The celebrated author of <i>The New York Trilogy</i>, <i>The Book of Illusions</i>, and <i>4 3 2 1</i> presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers, including his "breathtaking memoir" (<i>Financial Times</i>), <i>The Invention of Solitude</i>.<br><br> Ranging in subject from Sir Walter Raleigh to Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit, conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Auster's own typewriter, the World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, <i>Collected Prose</i> records the passions and insights of a writer who "will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time" (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>).</p>
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