On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Chapter by chapter, the rotating narratives evolve into an elaborate dance of inner worlds enfolded within the outer forces of history as, one by one, the intimate plot of each Ferguson's story rushes on across the tumultuous and fractured terrain of mid twentieth-century America. A boy grows up-again and again and again.As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written 4 3 2 1 is an unforgettable tour de force, the crowning work of this masterful writer's extraordinary career.
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4 3 2 1
By Paul Auster
On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Chapter by chapter, the rotating narratives evolve into an elaborate dance of inner worlds enfolded within the outer forces of history as, one by one, the intimate plot of each Ferguson's story rushes on across the tumultuous and fractured terrain of mid twentieth-century America. A boy grows up-again and again and again.As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written 4 3 2 1 is an unforgettable tour de force, the crowning work of this masterful writer's extraordinary career.
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Reviewed by VerenaHCEin außergewöhnliches Buch. Ein und dieselbe Person - 4 unterschiedliche Lebenswege. Das Buch ist einfach unglaublich gut und reich. Die Lebenswege sind in die historischen Ereignisse der amerikanischen Geschichte der 50er und 60er Jahre eingebettet. Vom der Ermordung Kennedys und Martin Luther King bis hin zum Vietnam Krieg, die Studentenunruhen, die Bewegung der Schwarzen und die Rassendiskriminierung. Darüberhinaus auch sehr viele philosophische Gedanken über das Leben und was bestimmte Lebenswege beeinflussen kann. Das Ende macht das Ganze Buch noch einmal rund, darf aber nicht verraten werden... Ich habe das Buch als Hörbuch gehört, in Englisch von Paul Auster selbst gelesen. Ich denke ich werde es irgendwann noch einmal hören/lesen. Es ist einfach sehr reich an Inhalt, aber ohne einem zu viel zu werden.