by Paul Auster

Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, includingThe New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, andTimbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works:The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger. InThe Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comicthat reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel roomall these form the context for a singular kind ofars poetica, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.