Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Waiting on Wednesday - October 21


"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

In honor of my author interview that will be posted later today with the amazing Irene Hannon my "can't-wait-to-read" selection for this week is:

Invisible by Paul Auster

Release: October 27, 2009

'One of America's greatest novelists' dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.'
So what are you waiting on this week?

5 comments:

Novel Insights said...

I keep hearing about Paul Auster, and feel so silly for never having come across / read him before.

Jill said...

This one's on my list, too...great pick!

Nina said...

Great pick! It does sounds very good. :)

Here's mine:
http://jadorehappyendings.blogspot.com/2009/10/waiting-on-wednesday-5.html

Mary (Bookfan) said...

Sounds interesting - and that's an attention getting cover.

vvb32 reads said...

hmmm, i still have city of glass to read. this sounds intriguing.

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