Timbuktu
The Book of Illusions
Oracle Night
The Brooklyn Follies
Travels in the Scriptorium
Man in the Dark
Invisible
Nonfiction
The Invention of Solitude
The Art of Hunger
Why Write?
Hand to Mouth
The Red Notebook
Collected Prose
Screenplays
The Inner Life of Martin Frost
Poetry
Collected Poems
Illustrated Books
The Story of My Typewriter (with Sam Messer)
Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story (with Isol) City of Glass (adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli)
Editor
The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry
I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project
Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition
Acknowledgments
Warm thanks to the following:
Charles Bernstein, Susan Bee, and their son, Felix.
Mark Costello.
Larry Siems and Sarah Hoffman of the PEN American Center.
My daughter, Sophie Auster, for her sixth-grade paper on To Kill a Mockingbird (1998).
Siri Hustvedt for the strangeness of being alive.
About the Author
PAUL AUSTER is the bestselling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark, and The Book of Illusions, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Médicis étranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance), and the Edgar Award (City of Glass). His work has been translated into forty-one languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sunset Park / Paul Auster.—1st ed.
p. cm.
“A Frances Coady book.”
ISBN: 978-0-8050-9286-8
1. Young adults—Fiction. 2. Sunset Park (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. 3. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3551.U77S86 2010
813'.54—dc22 2009045726
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.