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Paul Auster
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24 Jun 2010

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and studen at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

Three different narrators tell the story, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice.

With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.


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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (24 Jun 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0571249523
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571249527
  • Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 19.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 123,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The coming-of-age story dazzlingly reinvented by one of America's greatest novelists, in his most commercial, passionate and surprising book to date.

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Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in the United States in 1947. After attending Columbia University, he lived in France for four years. Since 1974 he has published poems, essays, novels, screenplays and translations. He was the editor of the short story anthology, True Tales of American Life. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A return to form, of sorts 21 Jan 2010
By Gazza
Format:Hardcover
Having read everything he's ever written, and always looked forward to a new book release, I must admit I was slightly anxious about Invisible. The last book, Man in the Dark, was slight by comparison with epics like The New York Trilogy and The Music of Chance, and previous novel The Brooklyn Follies was ok, but fell way short of Auster's previous high standards. Writer's block, perhaps?

Invisible represents a return to form, of sorts. The narrative is looser than some previous works although Auster fans will spot the usual deft touches with dialogue. I was disappointed by the last 20 pages but in true Auster fashion little is 'explained' in the true sense of the word. The sexual references were unexpected, and frequent. This is a more earthy Auster than fans will be used to.

Overall, good but not great. But this is Paul Auster and it seems his fans may have to get used to a mixed bag of output these days.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Disarming, subversive, wonderful. 20 Nov 2009
By A. Macfarlane VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
Its hard to say too much about this book without without diluting the experience for anyone else reading it this for themselves, so I'll keep it brief. This is a story of Adam Walker, notionally his biography focusing on a life changing year at college and his meeting with a man called Born. On the surface, it is a story of how brief moments, the chance to make a decision to do one thing or the other, defines a life.

Auster writes wonderfully; he offers a masterclass in defining a narrative voice. He manages to have Walker write his autobiography in first, second and third person till eventially the voice in not Walker's at all. An amazing device that pulls the reader into the heart of Walker's story then pushes them out to give a suitable perspective on the whole story, and makes the disturbing passages of this book all the more uncomfortable for it.

I had never read Auster before this, but admit I rushed out almost immediately to buy whatever else I could find by him after this. This is a very, very good book.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Invincible Auster? Sadly not... 15 Nov 2010
Format:Paperback
I am a bit of a Paul Auster fan and have been working my way through his novels with an insatiable hunger. Ever since 'The New York Trilogy' I have been searching for that same genius in his writing. I did find greatness in some others i.e.: 'The Music of Chance', 'Travels in the Scriptorium' and 'Oracle Night'. But nothing has quite matched the brillince of the Trilogy.

'Invisible' however, disappointed me quite a lot. As a big Auster fan, it was particularly irritating to feel so let down with this novel. Although it had some of the trademarks of an Auster, which have become a bit too expected (i.e.: a young male who is in the midst of education, a beautiful cold older woman who the young male is attracted to, a violent and impulsive older gentleman, a three-way relationship, a writer within the story etc) - I was still eager to delve into the novel with an open mind.

Sadly, it was rather tedious. The plot was not as exciting as it should have been, the dialogue was often boring and felt a bit insincere, the characters were not always believable and there was a strange incest episode which was brushed away by the end of the novel as imaginary. Seemed a bit strange to go into that much detail just to dismiss it as fiction...

I wanted to like this book but sadly I didn't. I think Auster needs to take a new perspective on his characters - try to not make the main character a writer in his books for a change... But I shall persist. 'The Invention of Solitude' and 'Moon Palace' next. Still a man with much talent so I read on...
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3.0 out of 5 stars a collection of ideas
I admit to having stuggled with two previous Auster novels and failed. With this book I read it easily and quickly. However, it failed to coalesce as I hoped it would. Read more
Published 4 months ago by thetruthshallsetyefree
5.0 out of 5 stars A good read
A very good read. I found the construction of the book very interesting and was gripped from beginning to the end.
Published 5 months ago by P. Marsh
4.0 out of 5 stars An impossible task.....
i am as taken with the reviews of Auster's book as with the book itself! So many saying that he isnt writing as he used to! In one we compare with his work of 1967! Read more
Published 6 months ago by Paul W. Morgan
5.0 out of 5 stars Rugby tackled by a book!
Once in a while, if you are lucky, a book comes along that gets you in a rugby tackle. Thus tackled you can do little in your day but read the book, save go to the loo and... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Andrew Barley
3.0 out of 5 stars An unexpected surprise (few minor spoilers below)
Invisible arrived as a gift from a friend with impeccable taste in books who has excellent form in sending me interesting books that I would never buy for myself. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Thomas Blount
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb return to metaphysical form
We're back in familiar Auster territory, in fact it could be argued that he only ever really writes about one thing, the illusory layers of reality and the process of fiction as a... Read more
Published on 18 Jan 2011 by Jamie Mollart
4.0 out of 5 stars Gripping, puzzling, thoughtful
Like that other great American novelist Philip Roth, Paul Auster suffers at the hands of critics because he is so prolific. Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2010 by J. H. Bretts
2.0 out of 5 stars Beret sold separately
Invisible, the story of a college student transgressing the boundaries of morality in 1960s Paris and New York, is built upon shifting foundations of postmodernism that give the... Read more
Published on 18 Nov 2010 by Nicola
2.0 out of 5 stars Has Auster employed junior college students to do his writing for him?
I'll keep this short (shame Auster didn't!);
I've read mopst of Auster's novels at this point, and for the most part I've been entirely impressed - Auster's writing can... Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2010 by Stephen Porter
4.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing but riveting and an all round fantastic read!
This is the first Paul Auster book I have read and I only did so because it was picked for our book club. Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2010 by maryscot0509
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