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008			230522s2023 nyu 000 1 eng
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100	1		_aAuster, Paul, _d1947- _eauthor. _915855
245	1	0	_aBaumgartner : _ba novel / _cPaul Auster.
250			_aFirst edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bGrove Press, _c2023.
300			_a202 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
520			_a"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner--phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor--has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary. Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient details of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others?"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWidowers _vFiction. _99357
650		0	_aOlder men _vFiction. _915856
650		0	_aCollege teachers _vFiction. _98429
650		0	_aWives _xDeath _vFiction. _98335
650		0	_aGrief _vFiction. _95896
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft. _950
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aAuster, Paul, 1947- _tBaumgartner _bFirst edition, First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. _dNew York : Grove Press, 2023 _z9780802161536 _w(DLC) 2023023629.
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