Mesmerising Auster is rich and varied

Few writers alive could pull off what Paul Auster has managed to achieve in his novels.

Collected Novels By Paul Auster Picador, €35 Few writers alive could pull off what Paul Auster has managed to achieve in his novels.

Novel after novel, Auster subverts every principle to create fiction that frequently makes the leap from the merely innovative to the sublime.

This book, a collection of Auster's first three novels, nicely showcases his delinquent agenda. In his debut fiction, The New York Trilogy, he pens a mystery novella that ...