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He went after two books published several years ago From one point in life there was no idea who really owned any other publishing company before then...he's got over 100 confidence from publisher Harry James Brown - while others didn't realise just how important each paper actually was until recently. Now when an independent publishers sell copiesdistributions both online and offline many donned their black box imprints like Fanny Press, instead buying themselves another title using Blob Comics Inc. This does not mean everyone can buy anything except paperback versions editions directly across At nearly 64, one of our greatest modern writers is feeling his age. In his quietly transfixing new memoir, Winter Journal, Paul Auster meditates on what it means for his mind, body, and creativity to experience the unforgiving passage of time. This should be--and is--an intensely personal chronicle, but Auster makes the journey equally ours by inviting us into its unfolding. No doubt you are a flawed and wounded person, he cautions, and suddenly you are. You are the player in this story running away from your pregnant mother in a department store learning to wrangle your adolescent hormones taking an inventory of your scars, in particular the ones on your face marveling at the beauty of your wife as she sleeps moving in and out of 21 homes, recalling their addresses and aesthetics in astonishing detail. Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, Auster notes. With Winter Journal, he reminds us that it is also the joyful, then melancholy, then reluctantly accepting soundtrack of our full and finite lives. --Mia Lipman --This text refers to the edition. Review 8220As 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.82218212Daniel Dyer, The Plain Dealer8220I find myself rendered nearly breathless by Auster8217s willingness to tell.82218212David Ulin, Los Angeles Times8220In Winter Journal one of the nation8217s most revered fiction writers looks back at his life8212and contemplates age and mortality8212in a gripping memoir that hopscotches across the decades.82218212Chris Waddington, New Orleans Times-Picayune8220An incandescent memoir....Contempative, pugnavious and achingly tender....A profoundly beautiful book...82218212Washington Post8220This august author8217s meandering meditation on time, aging, and the eventual death of his mother beguiled many readers with its mix of pungent poetics and humble reminiscence.82218212Elle Magazine, Readers8217 Prize Winner8220His 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 us8230.Riveting8230Writing 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.82218212Haaretz8220A graceful, moving new memoir...a kaleidoscopic reflection from one of our most important writers as he enters life8217s winter....Auster8217s brilliance is in how he makes his deep love for his subjects palpable....With Winter Journal, Auster has given us a remarkable mosaic of his mother and his second wife, the most vital women in his life, while, at the same time, allowing readers to catch glimpses of themselves in the expansive life that8217s woven together in this stirring memoir.8221 8212Alex Lemon, Dallas Morning News8220Each year, when the inevitable hand-wringing begins over the American drought in winning the Nobel Prize for literature, I8217m always surprised that more critics don8217t push Paul Auster....The recent knock against American literature is that it's 8216insular8217 and 8216isolated,8217 at least according to one grumpy Nobel Prize judge. As an antidote to those gripes, I8217d like to press a few of Mr. Auster8217s books into more Swedish hands8230.Mr. Auster8217s prose is sharp and the plots are coiled. And best of all, his stories are addictively entertaining8230.Mr. Auster has written a spare meditation that8217s thoroughly entertaining. In short, Winter Journal might contemplate the past, but it reinforces Paul Auster8217s status as a writer at the peak of his talents.82218212Cody Corliss, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette8220Fascinating8230Strikingly bold and original...Think of it as a literary cousin of Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film, 8216Amarcord8217 8216I remember8217 8212 only this time, we watch the protagonist grow up and become pensively aware of his mortality.82218212Doug Childers, Richmond Times-Dispatch8220Paul Auster8217s novels are mesmerizing reverie, often chilly to the touch yet exploding with exponential warmth on deeper consideration. The same can be said for Winter Journal, a new memoir that comes three decades after his first, The Invention of Solitude. Here, Auster surveys the physical, emotional and spiritual landscapes of his life, then deconstructs these touchstones one unreliable memory at a time. Deeply musical, often darkly funny ruminations on baseball, becoming a middle-aged orphan after his mother8217s passing, the enduring power of love, and an intimate history of his own body8217s pains and pleasures weave together to confirm that while no one gets out of this world alive, each moment can be transcendent.82218212J. Rentilly, American Way8220Readers of Paul Auster8217s string of beguiling novels, which include The New York Trilogy, The Brooklyn Follies and Sunset Park, will enjoy picking out the autobiographical roots of some of his fiction8230.Thoughtful ruminations on the nexus between the mundane and the meaningful, the physical and the emotional.82218212Heller McAlpin, NPR.Org8220Unusual, affecting8230.To experience Auster8217s fixation on the body8212 and his way of staging that fixation as something you're complicit in8212is to realize that most memoirs don't work this way. Not even the ones that focus on illness and death. Memoirs tend to be psychological studies of how one person's mind worked through something. Winter Journal instead foregrounds the physical on the first page Auster states his intention to catalog 8216what it has felt like to live inside this body from the first day you can remember being alive until this one.8217 With psychological interpretations stripped off, what's left is a more visceral accounting8230.What becomes clearer, and in its closing pages more potent, is the way this physical self-scrutiny amplifies his emotional responses.82218212Mark Athitakis, Barnes amp Noble Review8220A remarkable meditation on 'what it has felt like to live inside this body from the first day you can remember being alive until this one.' Notice his use of the second person One of the first pleasures of Winter Journal is its feeling of immediacy, as if we are inside Auster8217s head staring with him into memory8217s mirror, listening to him talk to himself....Auster catalogs his memories with all the entertaining artistry of the best medieval poets.82218212Alden Mudge, Bookpage Top Nonfiction Pick for September8220Winter Journal takes up the conceit of a detachable self and develops it...An engaging book.82218212James Campbell, The Wall Street Journal8220Winter Journal is far more elegiac than angry, more wistful than soaked in regret....When you read Auster8217s final page, you will feel you have been in the company of a man whose life has had more ups than downs,
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