A spare, tender, romantic, and often charmingly funny novel about
aging, memory, and love from one of our greatest living writers, in the vein of
Wallace Stegner’s Crossing to Safety and John Williams’ StonerFollows in the tradition of Auster’s celebrated literary novels on
American life – especially in New York City and New Jersey– in the sixties
through early-2000’s, including Sunset Park, Brooklyn Follies, and 4
3 2 1Auster’s recent biography of Stephen Crane, Burning Boy,
won the Los Angeles Times book award for best biography in Spring 2022,
and his previous book, 4 3 2 1, was shortlisted for the 2017 Booker
Prize. The Music of Chance was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award in
1991. Baumgartner is Auster’s first novel since 4 3 2 1Grove published Auster’s most recent book, Bloodbath Nation, to
reviews and features in the the New York Times, Washington Post, 4Columns, and
moreAcross his career and seventeen previous books, Auster has
appeared in features and interviews on Fresh Air, On the Media with Brooke
Gladstone, The Paris Review, and more