"he story is, finally, so goodhearted and hopeful, so verbally exuberant, that its obvious architecture, its shameless borrowings, may be forgivable." The boldness of these maneuvers - rather like the big lie - allows them to work." "Auster keeps on offering novelistic dares. ' In the Country of Last Things,' reviewed by Padgett Powell.a brilliant leap forward, a beguiling entertainment that accomplishes nearly everything the first two books set out to do and provides a diverting main character as well." ' The Locked Room: The New York Trilogy."hat does one call a seamless little detective story that forces one to ask questions such as these? I call it nearly perfect." "ne can only wait with much anticipation for the second installment of this strange and powerful new adventure. ' City of Glass: The New York Trilogy.He has selected generously and with discernment." Auster's anthology is of riches prodigally offered. ' The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry,' edited by Paul Auster.To supply a final weighty generalization." emerges in spite of some of the means and flourishes employed to set it forth even the most original and penetrating sections are sometimes impaired by the author's urge ' The Invention of Solitude,' reviewed by W.from an audio interview with Paul Auster And in the end, I think of the book as a love story." It became fascinating to me to write a book about feeling in that sense, in such a pure, unadulterated, unironic form. Sigrid Estrada/ Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Paul Auster Interviewed by Bill Goldstein (May 5, 1999).Jim Shepard Reviews 'Timbuktu' (June 20, 1999).With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times
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