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Invisible (Hardback)
Short Description for InvisibleTwenty-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.
Full description- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Published: 05 November 2009
- Format: Hardback 320 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780571249312 ISBN 10: 0571249310
- Sales rank: 36,552
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A Return to form and a lesson in American prose
Fans of Auster will know that there is very little which could be deemed predictable about his work. Always one to embrace the offbeat, quirky and at times even the incredible, Invisible however breaks the mould just a touch, and plays the plot a shade straighter down the middle. Yet, the result turns out to be one of Auster's most compelling novels yet. The narrative is split into four sections (typical of Auster's fresh eye and innovative approach) - each recounting a season in the early life of Adam Walker. As a typically exuberant student, Walker encounters the mysterious figure of Rudolph Born, and his girlfriend Margot, whom he becomes romantically involved with. This proves only to the the tip of the iceberg as far as Walker's hunger for affairs of the heart go however, as Auster drags the reader into a tangle of encounters and liaisons, which takes more than a few surprising turns along the way.
One of the great strengths of the book is the pace at which Auster steers the story towards its eventual outcome, throughout the four structured sections. This is largely due to the crispness and tightness of the prose, which never wallows in the superfluous or excessive. Throughout the book his writing is simply masterful, and the perfect conduit for the dark and energetic plot. After some more patchy recent efforts, Invisible proves to be one of the finest in Auster's latter day canon, providing the necessary reassurance that he is, and always will be, considered as one of the finest writers of his generation. by Michelle Dalton
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