The Red Notebook: True Stories

Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including , and . He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: . In , Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic—that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room—all these form the context for a singular kind of , a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.