About this book
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 a student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker is caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.
Subjects
PoetsPsychological fictionCollege studentsFictionTriangles (Interpersonal relations)Nineteen sixtiesAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)Authors, fictionFiction, psychologicalFiction, coming of ageLarge type booksNew York Times reviewed