4 3 2 1 Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Paul Auster
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
133

4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster Book Summary

* * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * *

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review,
NPR, The Globe and Mail, Kirkus Reviews, Huffington Post, and The Spectator UK

“An epic bildungsroman . . . . Original and complex . . . . A monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes.”—Tom Perrotta, The New York Times Book Review

“A stunningly ambitious novel, and a pleasure to read. . . . An incredibly moving, true journey.”—NPR

New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller

Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself.

Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson’s pleasures and ache from each Ferguson’s pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson’s life rushes on.

As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force.

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Book Name 4 3 2 1
Genre Literary Fiction
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 3.18 MB

4 3 2 1 (Paul Auster) Book Reviews 2024

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You can do it!. You can get through this epically long novel without confusing yourself. I didn't pay attention when I bought this book that it is 4 different lives that could have been of one character. So at first I thought the author didn't remember his story all that well. Didn't Aunt Mildred live in California? How can she be a professor in Chicago? So I went back and read another review and from then on, I loved this book. If you grew up in the 80s, you would immediately think of those thin "Choose Your Own Adventure" books that were so light on the possible trails that you were always disappointed. Well this book is like CYOA books on steroids, with the trails long and different and giving your memory a challenge as you read. Highly recommend if you need a change of pace from quick and predictable fiction. And if you love to write run-on sentences yourself, you will be pleased to know you aren't always wrong.

At first it was great, then it wasn't!. Out of a scale one through four with 4 as excellent and 1 poor my rating for this book is the same as the title. 4-Excellent starting off 3-Interesting but starting to lose interest 2-Mid-book losing interest but willing to push on 1-Lost interest in the (now 3) Fergusons as their lives no longer matter to me. Too much of almost the same thing over and over and over and over and over (this sentence is what it felt like to read his prose). Reminds me of older books that belabored the point by writing around the point for pages instead of just coming out with it. I recommend waiting for your local library to have copies and check it out for free.

Interesting concept. I'm giving anything away and saying that this book tells the story of one boy from four different timelines. It's a neat idea. This is more than just one book it is really 1, 2, 3, 4 novels in one. Each chapter is more of a section, very lengthy, I wound up reading each story line in order rather then according to the table of contents simply because I kept forgetting where the story left off in the previous chapter section devoted to that iteration of the boy. This novel appears to be autobiographical. The author is a bit of a snob when it comes to his assumption that his readers probably haven't read as extensively as all four of the main characters have (or is it "main character had"since it is the same boy in a different timeline?). All in all not a bad read. Very well written. The man does love to string words together into a beautiful sentence then string beautiful sentences into beautiful paragraphs. The book leaves our hero at 1972 so this makes me wonder if there will be a second book called 8765. (Something to look forward to.)

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The 4 3 2 1 book written by Paul Auster was published on 31 January 2017, Tuesday in the Literary Fiction category. A total of 133 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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