In the Country of Last Things (23 page)

More by Paul Auster, “a literary original who is perfecting a genre of his own” (
Wall Street Journal
)—all available in Penguin

MR. VERTIGO

ISBN: 0-14-032190-0

A mysterious Hungarian teaches a St. Louis orphan to levitate, and they take their vaudeville act across the vast and vibrant America of the 1920s and 30s. “A charmer pure and simple … nothing less than the story of America itself”—
The Washington Post

THE ART OF HUNGER

ISBN: 0-14-017168-1

Auster reflects on his own work and traces the compulsion to make literature (or art) through essays on Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan, Laura Riding, Knut Hamsun, John Ashbery, and other seminal figures of the twentieth century.

IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS

ISBN: 0-14-009705-8

A woman searches for her brother in a devastated and violent world. “Reminiscent in many ways of Orwell’s
1984
… Auster creates a place so real it could be our own country, perhaps our very own city.”—
Atlanta Journal Constitution

THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE

ISBN: 0-14-010628-6

Auster’s moving and personal meditation on fatherhood “integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation … as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living.”—
Newsday

LEVIATHAN

ISBN: 0-14-017813-9

When his friend Benjamin Sachs blows himself up by the side of the road, it launches Peter Aaron on an investigation into the nature of friendship and betrayal, sexual desire and estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday.

MOON PALACE

ISBN: 0-14-011585-4

This “beautiful and haunting” (
San Francisco Chronicle
) book follows Marco Stanley Fogg, a child of the sixties, from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah in search of answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate.

THE MUSIC OF CHANCE

ISBN: 0-14-015407-8

Drifters Jim Nashe and Jack Pozzi enter a poker game against two rich eccentrics, and risk their freedom on the single blind turn of a card. “All the suspense and pace of a bestselling thriller” (
The New York Times
) and the basis for the critically acclaimed movie.

THE NEW YORK TRILOGY

ISBN: 0-14-013155-8

Auster’s novels
City of Glass, Ghosts
, and
The Locked Room
comprise an “electrifying … work of manifest originality, if not genius” (
San Francisco Examiner
) and “a brilliant investigation of the storyteller’s art guided by a writer-detective who’s never satisfied with just the facts.” (
Philadelphia Inquirer
)

Also available as a single volume:

CITY OF GLASS

ISBN: 0-14-009731-7