- Booker Prize 2017 · Shortlist
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Paul Auster (born 1947)
English editions
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Picador · United States · 5 May 2020 · Paperback · 992 pages
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Henry Holt and Company · United States · January 2017 · Hardcover · 880 pages
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Faber & Faber · United Kingdom · 31 January 2017
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Picador · United States · 6 February 2018 · Paperback · 880 pages
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On 3 March 1947 Archibald Isaac Ferguson is born, the son of Rose and Stanley. From that one beginning the novel follows four separate, simultaneous lives: four boys with the same genes who are and are not the same person, each Ferguson growing up along a different path. Their childhoods and youths take in summer camp, first heartbreak over Anne-Marie, an education shaped by a beloved aunt, Mildred, and by the books Ferguson devours, while the public events of the age press in on each of them: the Kennedy years, Martin Luther King's campaigns and Lyndon Johnson's presidency, on into the 1970s and across the fractured landscape of twentieth-century America.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Coming of age, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, 1947–1970s
- First published
- 2017
- Author's age
- 70 when first published
- ISBN
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9781627794466 (Henry Holt and Company, United States)
9781250160010 (Picador, United States)
9781250618801 (Picador, United States)
- More
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