A beautifully poetic work - Joyce Carol OatesIn his debut memoir, renowned author Paul Auster shares heartfelt and personal meditations on fatherhood that integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation . . . as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living (Newsday) Moving, delicately perceived portraits of lives and relationships.—The New York Times Book ReviewOne day there is life. . . . And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.The Invention of Solitude, split into two stylistically separate sections, established Paul Auster’s reputation as a major voice in American literature. The first section, Portrait of an Invisible Man, explores Auster’s memories and feelings after the death of his father, a distant, undemonstrative, almost cold man. As he attends to his father’s business affairs and sifts through his effects, Auster uncovers a sixty-year-old family murder mystery that sheds light on his father’s elusive character. In The Book of Memory, the perspective shifts from Auster’s identity as a son to his role as a father. Through a mosaic of images, coincidences, and associations, the narrator, A, contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather, and the solitary nature of storytelling and writing. | The Invention Of Solitude by PAUL AUSTER, Paperback | Indigo Chapters