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Timbuktu

"Auster, Paul"

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"Fine, clean and crisp first edition in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Auster's compelling and original voice here speaks in the sensitive thoughts of Mr. Bones, a dog."...

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"Fine, clean and crisp first edition in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Auster's compelling and original voice here speaks in the sensitive thoughts of Mr. Bones, a dog."

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Meet Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, Timbuktu. Mr. Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a last great adventure, heading for Baltimore, Maryland in search of Willy's high school teacher, Bea Swanson. Years have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who knew him in his previous incarnation as William Gurevitch, the son of Polish war refugees. But is Mrs. Swanson still alive? And if she isn't, what will prevent Willy from vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu?
Mr. Bones is our witness. Although he walks on four legs and cannot speak, he can think, and out of his thoughts Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in recent American fiction. By turns comic, poignant, and tragic, Timbuktu is above all a love story. Written with a scintillating verbal energy, it takes us into the heart of a singularly pure and passionate character, an unforgettable dog who has much to teach us about our own humanity.

Product Info

ISBN: 0805054073

ISBN-13: 9780805054071

Publisher: "Henry Holt & Company, LLC"

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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Country: United States