Invisible

Hardback Published on: 05/11/2009
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Synopsis

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, "Invisible" opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three different narrators tell the story, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • ISBN: 9780571249312
  • Dimensions: 242 x 160 x 29 mm
  • Weight: 544g

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Invisible
Magnificent, heartbreaking, unforgettable
Adam Walker, student, is invited to the house of lecturer Rudolf Born. Here he meets the seductive and solitary Margot. His relationship to Margot is secon... READ MORE
Rob
Invisible
ok read
This story is an okish sort of read, not a story to stick in your brain and remember.
Bookread2day
Invisible
Uncomfortable but rewarding read
A challenging and oppressive multi-narrative thriller in which a promising poet's chance encounter with an impassioned Frenchman (and his mysterious girlfr... READ MORE
Philip Stone