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4 3 2 1

of Paul Auster

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Astonishing, a masterpiece, Paul Auster’s greatest, most satisfying, most vivid and heartbreaking novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of inheritance, family, love and life itself.Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson’s pleasures and ache from each Ferguson’s pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson’s life rushes on.As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force.

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Fiction Fiction Historical Fiction Contemporary Literary Fiction Novels Literature American Audiobook Americana The United States Of America

Main Characters

Archie Ferguson Stanley Ferguson Rose Ferguson Amy Schneiderman

Book Details

  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 866 pages
  • Publisher Henry Holt and Co.
  • Publication Date January 31st 2017
  • First Publication Not informed
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9781627794466
  • Edition Deckle Edge
  • Category Fiction
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