The Red Notebook: True Stories

The Red Notebook **brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster’s short, true-life stories―a remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality.** Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including *The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo* , and *Timbuktu*. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: *The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger*. In *The Red Notebook* , Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic―that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room―all these form the context for a singular kind of *ars poetica* , a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.