Winter Journal, Paul Auster
Winter Journal, Paul Auster
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Winter Journal

Author: Paul Auster

Narrator: Paul Auster

Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/21/2012


Synopsis

From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, 4 3 2 1, and The New York Trilogy, Winter Journal presents a moving and highly personal meditation on the body, time, and language itself.

"That is where the story begins, in your body, and everything will end in the body as well.

Facing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations—both pleasurable and painful.

Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude, in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir in which he writes about his mother's life and death. Winter Journal is a highly personal meditation on the body, time, and memory, by one of our most intellectually elegant writers.

About Paul Auster

Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He died at age seventy-seven in 2024.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jakob J. on December 01, 2024

*Update: I have only just learned of Paul Auster’s death this past April, 2024. I don’t stay abreast of much such news of late. While I have not read him in many years, and this memoir may not have had the same impact on me if I had read it more recently, it marks a pivotal time in my literary life,......more

Goodreads review by JimZ on April 10, 2021

I gave ‘Invisible’ 3.5 stars and ‘Sunset Park’ 3 stars, and I thought Paul Auster was good, but ehhhhhh…(I wasn’t waxing poetic about him). And some of my GR friends were patient with me, and I tried to be patient with them (why are they so enamored with this fellow?) and then I read this book by hi......more


Quotes

“Auster’s memoir courses gracefully over ground that is frequently rough, jarring and painful . . . But there are summery memories, as well. . . . Some of the loveliest sentences in the text—and there are many—are illuminated by love. . . . A consummate professional explores the attic of his life, converting rumination to art.” —Kirkus (starred review)

“Paul Auster's narration quickly engages the listener as he shares this very personal examination of his life. He effectively modulates pitch and tone as he recounts milestones and victories with an audible smile and sadly reflects upon tragedies and losses. His pacing varies appropriates from brisk to pensive, and his pleasing baritone adds an extra layer of richness to the presentation.” —AudioFile Magazine