4 3 2 1 Author：Paul Auster Paperback: 1088 pages Publisher: Faber & Faber ; Open Market - Airside ed edition ( 2017-10-04 ) Language: English ISBN-10: 0571324649 ISBN-13: 978-0571324644 Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 4.5 x 17.8 cm 内容简介 On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson"s life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Famil ... 展开完整描述 ▼
4 3 2 1
Author：Paul Auster
Paperback: 1088 pages
Publisher: Faber & Faber ; Open Market - Airside ed edition ( 2017-10-04 )
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0571324649
ISBN-13: 978-0571324644
Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 4.5 x 17.8 cm
内容简介
On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson"s life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson"s story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.
Review
A masterpiece. (Daily Mail)
Absorbing and immersive . . . the author’s greatest novel . . . showing that he can out-Roth, out-Updike and out-Franzen the greatest as a richly textured chronicler of modern America in flux, in transit and in crisis . . . The postmodern epic has never felt so much like an addictive long-form TV serial. (Financial Times)
Remarkable . . . A novel that contains multitudes. (New York Times)
A vast portrait of the turbulent mid-20th century . . . wonderfully, vividly conveyed. (New Statesman)
Ingenious . . . 4 3 2 1 reads like a big social drama . . . while offering the philosophical exploration of one man’s fate. (Esquire)
An epic home-run. (Spectator)
Ambitious and sprawling . . . Immersive . . . Auster has a startling ability to report the world in novel ways. (USA Today)
The cold war, the execution of the Rosenbergs, JFK, Martin Luther King, the Vietnam draft, the My Lai massacre, the Kent State shootings: here’s a novel as attentive to period detail as Philip Roth would be, or Richard Ford, or Jonathan Franzen. The new expansiveness is reflected in the sentences, which run on, fluent, self-delighting, reluctant to stop. And the relationship between the private and public is neatly evoked through the image of concentric circles, with the world (and war) on the outer rim and the individual (and his battles) a small dot at the centre. (Blake Morrison Guardian)
4 3 2 1 fizzes with the sheer pleasure of a writer routinely praised or censured as a coterie puzzler, an existentialist dandy, showing the he can out-Roth, out-Updike and out-Franzen the greatest as a richly textured chronicler of modern America in flux, in transit and in crisis… The postmodern epic has never felt so much like an addictive long-form TV serial. (Boyd Tonkin Financial Times) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Des cription
Paul Auster"s first novel in seven years. His greatest, most provocative, most heartbreaking, most satisfying work.
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From the Inside Flap
Shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
Paul Auster"s first novel in seven years. His greatest, most provocative, most heartbreaking, most satisfying work. A sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.
On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born.
From that single beginning, Ferguson"s life will take four simultaneous paths.
Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives.
Each version of Ferguson"s story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.
作者简介
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, 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 and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the s creenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
