Winter Journal

The highly acclaimed and haunting work from the bestselling, internationally acclaimed author of The Invention of Solitude and The New York Trilogy.

Facing his sixty-forth winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster decides to write a journal as he sees himself aging in ways he never imagined. Compellingly written, and with dreamlike logic and urgency, the autobiographical fragments and meditations produce an extraordinary mosaic of a life. Weaving together vividly detailed stories, Auster illuminates how each small incident comes to signify a whole. There are two recurring moments: one of bodily terror—his panic attack following his mother's death in 2002; the other of joy—his experience watching a dance piece in 1978 which releases him from writer's block just prior to his father's… Keep Reading