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Collection:
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Good Reading |
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Call Number:
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F |
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Author:
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Auster, Paul |
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Title:
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Baumgartner |
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Remainder of title:
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a novel |
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Summary, etc. note:
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"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner-phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor-has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary. Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient details of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others?"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780802161536 |
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(ebook) |
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(hardcover) |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9780802161444 |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Classification number:
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PS3551.U77 |
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Edition number:
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23/eng/20230522 |
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Classification number:
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813/.54 |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1947- |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Paul Auster. |
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Edition statement:
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First edition. |
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Place of publication:
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New York , NY |
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Name of publisher:
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Grove Atlantic Press |
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Date of publication:
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2023 |
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Projected publication date:
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2311 |
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New York : |
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Grove Press, |
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[2023] |
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Extent:
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202 pages |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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computer |
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rdacarrier |
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online resource |
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cr |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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B&T 12/1/23 |
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Purchase price:
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27.00 |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Subject:
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Love |
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Subject:
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Memory |
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Subject:
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Grief |
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Source of term:
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lcgft |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Novels. |
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Main entry heading:
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Auster, Paul, 1947- |
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Edition:
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First edition. |
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Place, publisher, and date of publication:
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New York : Grove Press, [2023] |
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Display text:
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Print version: |
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Title:
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Baumgartner |
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Record control number:
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(DLC) 2023023628 |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780802161444 |
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acquire |
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ecip ebook |
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policy default |
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ecip ebook 2023-05-23 |
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LC online resource |
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2023-05-24 |
Bibliography Copy Information:
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Due Back |
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53687 |
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