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Picador
May 2000
On Sale: May 7, 2000
192 pages
ISBN: 0312263996
EAN: 9780312263997
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Meet Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable
new novel, Timbuktu. Mr. Bones is the sidekick and confidant
of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and
altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don
Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a
last great adventure, heading for Baltimore, Maryland in
search of Willy's high school teacher, Bea Swanson. Years
have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who
knew him in his previous incarnation as William Gurevitch,
the son of Polish war refugees. But is Mrs. Swanson still
alive? And if she isn't, what will prevent Willy from
vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu? Mr. Bones is our witness. Although he walks on four legs and
cannot speak, he can think, and out of his thoughts Auster
has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in recent
American fiction. By turns comic, poignant, and tragic,
Timbuktu is above all a love story. Written with a
scintillating verbal energy, it takes us into the heart of a
singularly pure and passionate character, an unforgettable
dog who has much to teach us about our own humanity.
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