Baumgartner : a novel / Paul Auster.
"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner-phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor-has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary. Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient details of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802161444 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 202 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2023.
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Subject: | College teachers > Fiction. Grief > Fiction. Husband and wife > Fiction. Memory > Fiction. Older men > Fiction. Reminiscing > Fiction. Widowers > Fiction. Wives > Death > Fiction. |
Genre: | Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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- 6 of 6 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Fernie Heritage Library | FIC AUS (Text) | 35136000654682 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Castlegar Public Library | FIC AUS (Text) | 35146002354595 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Fort Nelson Public Library | AUS (Text) | 35246001091279 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Gibsons Public Library | FIC AUST (Text) | 30886001125752 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
Sechelt Public Library | F AUST (Text) | 33260100149906 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Smithers Public Library | F AUS (Text) | 35101011090995 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |