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Report From The Interior
Paul Auster
Henry Holt and Company
November 2013
On Sale: November 19, 2013
385 pages
ISBN: 0805098577
EAN: 9780805098570
Kindle: B00DA79Z4W
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Paul Auster’s most intimate autobiographical work to
date In the beginning, everything was alive. The
smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . .
. Having recalled his life through the story of
his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally
acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience
of his development from within through the encounters of his
interior self with the outer world in Report from the
Interior. From his baby’s-eye view of the man in
the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy
Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the
age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of
American life, Report from the Interior charts
Auster’s moral, political, and intellectual journey as he
inches his way toward adulthood through the postwar 1950s
and into the turbulent 1960s. Auster evokes the
sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early
life—and the many images that came at him, including moving
images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films),
until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose
into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the
Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an
album of pictures. At once a story of the times—which makes
it everyone’s story—and the story of the emerging
consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part
work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely,
if ever, seen before.
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