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  • Paul Auster – a life in pictures

    Paul Auster, the author of 34 books including the acclaimed New York Trilogy, has died aged 77. Auster became known for his ‘highly stylised, quirkily riddlesome postmodernist fiction in which narrators are rarely other than unreliable and the bedrock of plot is continually shifting’, the novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote in 2010 Continue reading