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005 20190426092822.0
008 190514s2017 nyu g 000 1 eng d
010 $a 2016020041
020 $a9781627794466 (hbk.) :$cNT$1138
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aPS3551.U77$bA615 2017
082 04$a813.54$222
100 1 $aAuster, Paul,$d1947-$eauthor.
245 10$a4 3 2 1 /$cPaul Auster.
246 3 $aFour, three, two, one.
250 $aFirst edition.
260 $aNew York :$bHenry Holt and Company,$c2017.
300 $a866 p. ;$c25 cm.
520 $a"Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternityward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to lifeitself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"A sweeping family saga (with a bit of a twist) about the life and loves of Archie Ferguson, a Jewish boy born to second-generation immigrants in the United States just after World War II"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0$aMan-woman relationships$vFiction.
650 0$aJewish families$vFiction.