- Unknown Binding: 17 pages
- Publisher: William Drenttel (1992)
- ISBN-10: 0962522449
- ISBN-13: 978-0962522444
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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"Thoroughly enjoyable...Auster's subtly crafted portrayal of the mechanics of reality is eminently realistic in its complexity and flaws."
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An illustrated Christmas gift book edition of a classic short Paul Auster tale.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Auggie Wren runs a store where you can buy tobacco and magazines. One day a youth steels a few paperbacks and Augggie Wren runs after him. The young man loses his wallet and Auggie stops to pick it up. He looks in the wallet and finds the address
of what turns out to be the grandmother of our young delinquent. ( I can't tell anymore without spoiling the plot ).
of what turns out to be the grandmother of our young delinquent. ( I can't tell anymore without spoiling the plot ).
Film director Wayne Wang was seduced by this little story and it was he who persuaded Paul Auster to write the script for "Smoke". (1994).
The present edition of "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" has two parts. The first part is a kind of introduction and uses a scene from the film where Auggie shows his photo collection to Paul. Even in this introduction reality and fiction are intertwined to become one and the same.(And isn't this the true value of literature, to erase the borderline between dreams and every day reality ?).
The second part is the story like it was told by Harvey Keitel in "Smoke".
At the end Paul Auster says: " As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true."
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The story contained in these pages is a short one, yet featuring the colourful character of Auggie Wren, Brooklyn cigar store proprietor, it overflows with meaning, optimism and humanity. Fans of Auster will nod at the author's traditional appearance in his own work, casting as he does, some doubt about whether the story is a "true" one or merely another work of fiction. "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story" exists in that uncertain, unknowable hinterland between Auster's reality and the reader's. Beautifully bound and illustrated, for existing disciples of Paul Auster, this is a neat and welcome trinket that will sit proudly in the collection. For newcomers, both the tale itself and the accompanying images drawn so playfully by illustrator "Isol" will serve as a useful entry point for the ambiguous worls of the author.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Arrived and read it in the few minutes after. It resounded with the many times random, imperfect encounters (in the corner of a cafe, or a bus or a plane) have led to something "other" in my own existence. Often we look and don't "see". Or we don't look. Auggie Wren is a call to attention, to "seeing" through the tenuous fabric of life and maximising, relishing, the hand it deals you. The question is: when, and how, do we start to see the pattern/s in things, in our own life? Are occasional glimpses enough? Do we always need a mentor a-la-Auggie Wren?
I love the wicked mystery, the delighted smiles of someone (Auggie) that searches for, has glimpsed, that something "other". And who, like the narrator, hasn't had that fortuitous encounter that has left them wondering who that person, that stranger, was, if they and their story were actually real? Life is a jigsaw puzzle with lots of pieces missing (but a few in place).
The illustrations added to that sense of a certain path or order found in the middle of chaos, but the text is more than rounded enough in itself.
Beautifully brief and simple.
I love the wicked mystery, the delighted smiles of someone (Auggie) that searches for, has glimpsed, that something "other". And who, like the narrator, hasn't had that fortuitous encounter that has left them wondering who that person, that stranger, was, if they and their story were actually real? Life is a jigsaw puzzle with lots of pieces missing (but a few in place).
The illustrations added to that sense of a certain path or order found in the middle of chaos, but the text is more than rounded enough in itself.
Beautifully brief and simple.
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Lovely Christmas Gift
Fascinating illustrations - lovely book. Good to see the Short Story format being taken so seriously.
Published on 8 Feb 2010 by M. Archbold
Good read
Talking from the perspective of an Auster loving home, this little book was not disappointing at all. It was short, but non pretentious and the illustrations are original.
Published on 20 Jan 2010 by Alain Leger
Perfect for Christmas
This is a lovely short story suitable for anyone! Its a feel-good tale, perfect for a light bedtime read
Published on 22 Dec 2009 by Ms. L. A. Maxwell
A little gem....
First of all, the little book is absolutely beautifully crafted and Isol's pictures make reading the book an incredible pleasure. The story in itself is so very Austerian. Read more
Published on 21 Dec 2009 by Michelle David Hansen
Another chance for music
I believe this story belongs in a land where if you go looking for good things, you don't find them (and I've been looking for this one for over a decade), but then, one day, by... Read more
Published on 13 Dec 2009 by Mr. N. E. Gibson
Surprising
Granted I didn't read this for kicks. It was for university because we had to study the movie "Smoke" which was based in this story. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2009 by Ricardo Miranda
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