4 3 2 1: An Evening with Paul Auster
Thursday 9 March 2017, 7 p.m. · 60 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/0/1/2/1/531210-10-eng-GB/584e85ef9b8d4.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/0/1/2/1/531210-10-eng-GB/584e85ef9b8d4.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/0/1/2/1/531210-10-eng-GB/584e85ef9b8d4.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/0/1/2/1/531210-10-eng-GB/584e85ef9b8d4.jpg 1200w)
Paul Auster discussed his first novel in seven years, the extraordinary 4 3 2 1 (Faber) in which a single individual, born in 1947 in Newark, follows four divergent paths through the life and history of mid-twentieth-century America.
Auster’s work, in prose, poetry, memoir and film, has often explored multiple and shifting identities, and in 4 3 2 1 - whose protagonist, like Auster himself, is part of the Baby-Boomer generation - he continues his uniquely powerful exploration of selfhood, time and the relationship between fiction and reality.
Auster was in conversation with author and journalist Alex Preston.
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