Timbuktu by Paul Auster

Timbuktu by Paul Auster

Meet Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable novel, Timbuktu. Mr. Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a last great adventure, heading for Baltimore, Maryland, in search of Willy's high school teacher, Bea Swanson. Years have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who knew him in his previous incarnation as William Gurevitch, the son of Polish war refugees. But is Mrs. Swanson still alive? And if she isn't, what will prevent Willy from vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu?

Mr. Bones is our witness. Although he walks on four legs and cannot speak, he can think, and out of his thoughts Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in recent American fiction. By turns comic, poignant, and tragic, Timbuktu is above all a love story. Written with a scintillating verbal energy, it takes us into the heart of a singularly pure and passionate character, an unforgettable dog who has much to teach us about our own humanity.

Auster, Paul: - Paul Auster est un ecrivain americain, ne dans le New Jersey en 1947. Apres des etudes de lettres a la Columbia University, il se lance dans l'ecriture de poemes et de scenarios. Entre 1971 et 1975, il s'installe a Paris ou il traduit des auteurs comme Mallarme et Sartre, et publie son premier recueil de poemes: Unearth. Sa carriere litteraire s'envole en 1985 avec la parution de sa Trilogie new-yorkaise qui sera suivie de nombreux autres succes comme Moon Palace ou encore Leviathan qui obtient le prix Medicis etranger en 1993. Egalement passionne par le cinema, il participe au tournage de Smoke et realise Lulu on the Bridge. Invisible, son dernier roman, a recu un accueil critique et public unanime.

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ISBN 13	9780805054071
ISBN 10	0805054073
Title	Timbuktu
Author	Paul Auster
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Henry Holt & Company Inc
Year published	1999-05-25
Number of pages	181
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