{"product_id":"baumgartner-hardcover","title":"Baumgartner - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Auster\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and \"one of the great American prose stylists of our time\" \u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaumgartner'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, \u003cem\u003eBaumgartner\u003c\/em\u003e asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force\u003cem\u003e 4 3 2 1\u003c\/em\u003e, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Auster\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e4 3 2 1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunset\u003cbr\u003ePark\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoon Palace\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003eNew York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other works. In 2006, he was awarded the\u003cbr\u003ePrince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honors include the\u003cbr\u003ePrix Médicis étranger for \u003ci\u003eLeviathan\u003c\/i\u003e, the Independent Spirit Award\u003cbr\u003efor the screenplay of \u003ci\u003eSmoke\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book\u003cbr\u003ePrize for \u003ci\u003eBurning Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of\u003cbr\u003ework. His most recent novel, \u003ci\u003e4 3 2 1\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the\u003cbr\u003eMan Booker Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and\u003cbr\u003eLetters and is a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has\u003cbr\u003ebeen translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42683018313791,"sku":"9780802161444","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ad93f737ed52fbeda8637cf17a7bc201.webp?v=1764962276","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/baumgartner-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}