* * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * * New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller An epic bildungsroman . 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force..
As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before.
Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson\'s pleasures and ache from each Ferguson\'s pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson\'s life rushes on.
Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other.
Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast.
Family fortunes diverge.
Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives.
From that single beginning, Ferguson\'s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths.
Nearly two weeks early, 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. --NPR Paul Auster\'s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel--a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself.
An incredibly moving , true journey. . . .
A monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes .-- Tom Perrotta , The New York Times Book Review A stunningly ambitious novel, and a pleasure to read . . . .
Original and complex . . . . * * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * * New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller An epic bildungsroman
