Name: True Tales of American Life
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Author: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9780571214631

Type

Physical Book

Author

Paul Auster

Publisher

Faber And Faber Ltd.

Year

2002

Language

English

Pages

480

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0571214630

ISBN13

9780571214631

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True Tales of American Life

Paul Auster (Author) · Faber And Faber Ltd. · Paperback

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Synopsis "True Tales of American Life "

Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century. The requirement for selection was that each of the stories should be true, and each of the writers should not have been previously published. The collection that has emerged provides a richly varied and authentic voice for the American people, whose lives, loves, griefs, regrets, joys and sense of humour are vividly and honestly recounted throughout, and adeptly organised by Auster into themed sections. The section composed of war stories stretches as far back as the Civil War, still the defining moment in American history; while the sequence of 'Meditations' conclude the volume with a true and abiding sense of transcendence. The resultant anthology is both an enduring hymn to the strange everyday of contemporary American life and a masterclass in the art of storytelling.

Paul Auster

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Paul Auster was a writer, translator, and filmmaker. Among his works are The Invention of Solitude (1982); The New York Trilogy (1987); Moon Palace (1989); Leviathan (1992); Timbuktu (1999); The Book of Illusions (2002); Oracle Night (2003); Brooklyn Follies (2005); Sunset Park (2010); Winter Journal (2012); 4 3 2 1 (2017); The Immortal Flame of Stephen Crane (2021); A Country Bathed in Blood (2023), in collaboration with Spencer Ostrander, and Baumgartner (2024). He wrote the screenplays for the films Smoke (1995) and Blue in the Face (1995), co-directing with Wayne Wang, and for Lulu on the Bridge (1998) and The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007), which he directed alone. He edited the short story collection I Thought My Father Was God (2001) and his poetic work is collected in the volume Complete Poetry (2012). He was also the author of A Life in Words (2018), a volume that collects his conversations with Professor I. B. Siegumfeldt about his work and the craft of writing.
He received numerous awards, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions. He was named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He has received numerous awards, including the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions, the Qué Leer Award for Oracle Night, and the Leteo Award; he was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Book of Illusions and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Music of Chance.
In 2006 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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