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A young Chicagoan of boundless optimism barrels through the Depression and World War II, refusing to be defined by any single identity or allegiance.
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Humboldt's Gift
Charlie Citrine, a successful writer in 1970s Chicago, is losing his money to an ex-wife, a small-time gangster and a demanding girlfriend while he mourns Von Humboldt Fleisher, the brilliant, self-destructive poet who was his mentor.
Herzog
Moses Herzog, a middle-aged Jewish academic whose second wife has left him for his best friend, writes frantic, unsent letters to everyone, friends, enemies, philosophers and God, as his life collapses around him.
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Archie Ferguson is born in Newark in 1947 and grows up four times over, in four interleaved lives shaped by different accidents of fate, in Auster's most ambitious novel.
Wellness
Jack and Elizabeth met as young artists in 1990s Chicago, and twenty years later, married with a young son and buying a condo in the suburbs, they find their marriage and the theories they live by quietly cracking.
Moon Palace
In 1969, Columbia student Marco Stanley Fogg inherits his late uncle's library, reads and sells it book by book until he is starving in Central Park, and a job as companion to a rich, blind, cantankerous old man named Thomas Effing leads him to his own family's secrets.
The Reivers
An eleven-year-old Mississippi boy and two friends steal his grandfather's car and drive it to a Memphis brothel.
A Confederacy of Dunces
A slothful, brilliant, hot-dog-cart-pushing medievalist wages war against modern New Orleans in one of literature's great comic antiheroes.
On the Road
Two friends drive back and forth across America in a beat-up car, chasing jazz, girls, and a feeling of aliveness that keeps receding.
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Marilyn and David Sorenson, still in love after forty years in their house outside Chicago, have four daughters who keep falling short of their parents' marriage, and in 2016 a teenage boy one of them gave up for adoption comes into their lives.
In Search of Lost Time
A man dips a madeleine in tea and the taste unlocks his childhood, beginning seven volumes of memory, love, jealousy, society and art that redefined what a novel could do.
The Ghost Writer
A young writer spends a night at the Berkshires home of the reclusive author he idolises and becomes convinced that the man's mysterious young assistant is Anne Frank.
David Copperfield
David Copperfield tells his own life, from a happy early childhood and a cruel stepfather to a London factory, his eccentric aunt's rescue and his slow growth into a writer, in Dickens' most personal novel.