True Tales of American Life Paperback – 7 Oct. 2002, by Paul Auster (Author, Editor) Product details Publisher: ‎ Faber & Faber; Main edition (7 Oct. 2002) Language: ‎ English Paperback: ‎ 512 pages Dimensions: ‎ 13 x 3 x 20 cm Product description Review Fantastic stuff. -- The Face, December 2001 It is difficult to think of another book published this year ... that is ... so excellent in intention and so elegant in its execution. – Guardian, December 2001 Paul Auster’s astonishing anthology Where truth and beauty conflict or compete, Auster has opted for elegance of form, or measure of performability. – Sunday Herald, December 2001 This is writing at its very finest – done by a bunch of amateurs. – Independent, December 2001 Unforgettable. The 179 stories are beautifully written and intensely emotional. – Dazed and Confused, December 2001 Book Description True Tales of American Life contains 180 short stories of life in America, selected by Paul Auster from his National Public Radio show Weekend All Things Considered. Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century. The requirement for selection was that each of the stories should be true, and each of the writers should not have been previously published. The collection that has emerged provides a richly varied and authentic voice for the American people, whose lives, loves, griefs, regrets, joys and sense of humour are vividly and honestly recounted throughout, and adeptly organised by Auster into themed sections. The section composed of war stories stretches as far back as the Civil War, still the defining moment in American history; while the sequence of `Meditations` conclude the volume with a true and abiding sense of transcendence. The resultant anthology is both an enduring hymn to the strange everyday of contemporary American life and a masterclass in the art of storytelling. About the Author Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Pol Oster (1947) jedan je od najznačajnijih američkih romansijera današnjice, pesnik, esejista, scenarista, reditelj i prevodilac. Svojim društvenim angažmanom svrstava se među uticajne kritičare stanja sacremenog sveta, i posebno savremenog američkog društva. Autor je romana G. Vertigo, Levijatan, Mesečeva palata, Njujorška trilogija, U zemlji poslednjih stvari, Knjiga opsena, Proročka noć, Bruklinska revija ludosti, Putovanja u skriptorijum, Čovek u mraku, Nevidljivi, Sanset park, Zimski dnevnik, 4321. Napisao je dve memoarske knjige, knjigu eseja Umetnost gladovanja, kao i zbirku pesama Iščezavanja. Autor je scenarija za film Dim, koreditelj (sa Vejnom Vangom) filma Pandorina kutija, scenarista i reditelj filma Unutrašnji život Martina Frosta. Njegove knjige su prevedene na preko dvadeset jezika. Živi u Njujorku. KC