Paul Auster. (2012). Winter Journal. Henry Holt and Co.

Paul Auster. 2012. Winter Journal. Henry Holt and Co.

Paul Auster, Winter Journal. Henry Holt and Co, 2012.

Paul Auster. Winter Journal. Henry Holt and Co, 2012.

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   • bioText: Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, Invisible, 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 has also been 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). He is 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 lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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"That is where the story begins, in your body and everything will end in the body as well."
On January 3, 2011, exactly one month before his sixty-fourth birthday, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sat down and wrote the first entry of Winter Journal, his unorthodox, beautifully wrought examination of his own life, as seen through the history of his body. Auster takes us from childhood to the brink of old age as he summons forth a universe of physical sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening of sexual desire as an adolescent to the ever deepening bonds of married love, from meditations on eating and sleeping to the "scalding, epiphanic moment of clarity" in 1978 that set him on a new course as a writer.

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   • source: Daniel Dyer, The Plain Dealer
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     "As Auster escorts you through his life, you realize Winter Journal works like your own mind. It tells stories; it remembers, moves on, revisits; it sorts and classifies; it judges. Feels."

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   • source: David Ulin, Los Angeles Times
   • content: "I find myself rendered nearly breathless by Auster's willingness to tell."
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   • source: Chris Waddington, New Orleans Times-Picayune
   • content: "[In Winter Journal] one of the nation's most revered fiction writers looks back at his life--and contemplates age and mortality--in a gripping memoir that hopscotches across the decades."
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   • source: Washington Post
   • content: "An incandescent memoir....Contempative, pugnavious and achingly tender....A profoundly beautiful book..."
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   • source: Elle Magazine, Readers' Prize Winner
   • content: "This august author's meandering meditation on time, aging, and the eventual death of his mother beguiled many readers with its mix of pungent poetics and humble reminiscence."
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   • source: Haaretz
   • content: "His concerns will be familiar to many readers, but because he is Paul Auster, he is uniquely able to reflect on them for the rest of us....Riveting...Writing in the second-person, almost as if talking about someone else or as if speaking with a stranger, Auster, oddly enough, establishes a powerful intimacy with the reader."
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     Starred review from April 23, 2012
     “You think,” begins Auster in this quietly moving meditation on death and life, “it will never happen to you.” But because this is not fiction and Auster (Sunset Park) is as human as the rest of us, “one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.” The things that happen and which he chronicles are both momentous and mundane, the stuff of everyday life—the childhood baseball games, the succession of New York and Paris apartments (21 in total), even the women longed for, two of whom became wives—and the events that shook and shaped him. From the vantage point of the winter preceding his 64th birthday, Auster lets his body and its sensations guide his memories. There is no set chronology; time and place bleed from one year to another, between childhood and adulthood. His mother’s death in May 2002 is one of the most deeply resonant sections, drawing on childhood memories of her as a Cub Scout den mother—though she’d entered the “Land of Work”—along with her slow decline after the death of her second husband, made all the more painful as Auster relays it in retrospect, after the reader knows his mother is dead. This is the exquisitely wrought catalogue of a man’s history through his body, a body that has felt pain and pleasure because “ body always knows what the mind doesn’t know.” Agent: Carol Mann.

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     Starred review from May 1, 2012
     The acclaimed novelist (Sunset Park, 2010, etc.), now 65, writes affectingly about his body, family, lovers, travels and residences as he enters what he calls the winter of his life. Written entirely in the second person and, loosely, using the format of a journal (undated entries), Auster's memoir courses gracefully over ground that is frequently rough, jarring and painful: the deaths of his parents, conflicts with his relatives (he settles some scores), poor decisions (his first marriage), accidents (a car crash that could have killed him) and struggles in his early career. But there are summery memories, as well: his love of baseball (begun in boyhood), his fondness for Campbell's chicken noodle soup, his relationship with his mother, world travels (not all cheery; he recalls a near fistfight with a French taxi driver), books and friends. Most significant: his 30-year relationship with his wife, writer Siri Hustvedt (unnamed here), whom he continually celebrates. Some of the loveliest sentences in the text--and there are many--are illuminated by love. Near the end, Auster recalls visits with her family in Minnesota, a terrain so unlike what he knew (he lives in Brooklyn). Here, too, are moments of failure (not speaking up when he should have), of illness and injury, of sly humor. The author follows a grim description of a bout with the crabs with a paean to nature that begins, "Ladybugs were considered good luck." Auster indulges in the occasional rant--he goes off on the crudities of contemporary culture--and delivers numerous moments of artful craft. A consummate professional explores the attic of his life, converting rumination to art.

     COPYRIGHT(2012) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     March 15, 2012
     

     As might be expected of the brilliantly offbeat award-winning author of The New York Trilogy, this is not a standard retelling of life events. Instead, as he approaches his mid-sixties, Auster considers bodily pain and pleasure, the passage of time, and the weight of memory. High-minded readers will want.

     Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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      Starred review from July 1, 2012
      Austerphiles love the novelist-of-chance's vivid memoirs for the keys they provide to the mysteries, moods, and metaphysics of his haunting fiction. Here the Brooklyn-based author of the famed New York Trilogy and Sunset Park (2010) takes measure of his life over the course of a winter as he looks ahead to his sixty-fourth birthday. Auster tells himself to put aside your stories for now and try to examine what it has felt like to live inside this body from the first day you can remember being alive to this one. The result is an intensely sensuous account of strange and dramatic events punctuated by jazzy lists of everything from the places he's called home to his favorite foods. Auster's most piercing recollections are anchored to injury and illness, close calls and bad habits, age and the ghoulish trigonometry of fate. He remembers his mother with poignant precision; pays gallant tribute to his wife of 30 years, writer Siri Hustvedt; and writes ardently of his passion for baseball and books. Omitting his literary success, he portrays himself trapped in all but surreal sieges of rage, panic, and helplessness. Auster is startlingly forthright, mischievously funny, and unfailingly enrapturing as he transforms intimate memories into a zestful inquiry into the mind-body connection and the haphazard forging of a self.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2012, American Library Association.)

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      December 24, 2012
      In this captivating memoir, Auster tells his own story, recalling early years, travels, his first marriage and child, and various family deaths. Finally, he turns his attention to his glamorous and lonely mother and his second wife, novelist and essayist Siri Hustvedt. In a steady voice with a slight New Jersey accent, Auster himself narrates this audio edition. His voice is thoughtful and intense, and he reads at a steady clip, enunciating each word carefully and employing a perfect French accent when needed. Auster's voice and his story are mesmerizing; listeners will not be disappointed. A Holt hardcover.

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      April 15, 2012
      

      Auster's prose has always seemed cold, treating life as if it were something that takes no hostages. His memories here, presented as a kind of journal after the fact, humanize him. The obsessions are still present: the feelings of inadequacy, the panic attacks that have sidelined his life occasionally. But he writes also of the joy of physicality, remembers places he lived, waxes lyrical about his second wife. His mother is a presence in this book, much as his father was in The Invention of Solitude (1982). Her later years were desperately unhappy, but Auster can't forget the time she played softball with his Cub Scout den: belting the ball over the fielder's head and rounding the bases, she was triumphant for one moment. If Auster still sees life as a series of close calls, he seems to have settled into living it, whereas in his earlier books, he sometimes seemed a stranger to the planet. Auster opined once, "I believe the world is filled with strange events." He applies that judgment to his own life as well, as this slim book of memories makes clear. VERDICT Auster has many readers across his fiction and nonfiction. This book makes him a flesh-and-blood person and thus should prove appealing to his fans. [See Prepub Alert, 2/12/12.]--David Keymer, Modesto, CA

      Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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On January 3, 2011, exactly one month before his sixty-fourth birthday, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sat down and wrote the first entry of Winter Journal, his unorthodox, beautifully wrought examination of his own life, as seen through the history of his body. Auster takes us from childhood to the brink of old age as he summons forth a universe of physical sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening of sexual desire as an adolescent to the ever deepening bonds of married love, from meditations on eating and sleeping to the "scalding, epiphanic moment of clarity" in 1978 that set him on a new course as a writer.

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