Leviathan

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Leviathan
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Paul Auster
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 125
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780571276615
ClassificationsDewey:813.6
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 2 June 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an intricate, subtle and gripping investigation of another man's life in all its richness and complexity.

Author Biography

Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.