The next meeting of
Bernardsville Public Library’s book discussion group, Memoirs and Coffee, will
be held on Tuesday, March 26 at 10:30 am in the library’s Community
Room. Pat Kennedy-Grant, Readers’
Services Manager for the library, will lead the discussion of "Winter
Journal” (2012) by Paul Auster. [The author will not be present.]
Thirty years after the
publication of “The Invention of
Solitude,” in which he wrote movingly about fatherhood, this book is
composed in the manner of a musical fugue which advances from one
autobiographical fragment to the next, jumping backward and forward in time as
the various themes intersect, bounce off one another, and ultimately merge in a
chorus of multiple voices.
The
reviewer for the Washington Post said of the book, “In turns contemplative,
pugnacious and achingly tender, Auster, who may be one of the most imaginative
writers living and working in America today, gives us a blow-by-blow account of
his collision with life — a chronicle of scars, fears, deaths and afflictions
that have hounded him to his promontory of 64 years.”
Paul Auster is the
award-winning author of “Sunset Park,” “Invisible,” “The Book of Illusions,”
and “The New York Trilogy,” among many other works. "I Thought My Father Was God," the
NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited, was also a national
bestseller. In 2006, he was awarded the
Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature.
His work has been translated into forty-three languages. He lives in
Brooklyn, New York.
There is no charge and
no sign-up is needed to join the discussion. Call the library at 766-0118 for more
information.
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