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Book of the dead
The third in a trilogy of books I’ve read by Paul Auster recently - following ‘The Music of Chance‘ and ‘Mr Vertigo‘ - ‘The Invention of Solitude’ is a markedly different work, an autobiographical account divided into two parts: ‘Portrait of an Invisible Man’ and ‘Book of Memory’. The former is a [...]

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Carry the fire
9/10
I was initially surprised to hear that ‘The Road‘, a novel I had wrongly thought to be about a post-apocalyptic world populated by zombie flesh-eaters, had won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In fact only one-part of my initial prognosis was correct; the novel is centred around a man and his son’s [...]

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