Paris, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 10th Jan, 2023 ) :American author Paul Auster made his name with pacy, noirish novels about lonely writers, outsiders and down-and-outers.
Now he’s tackling America’s epidemic of gun violence in an impassioned account of the slaughter of innocents in schools, malls, clubs and churches.
The 75-year-old author with soulful, sunken eyes gained cult status in the 1980s and 1990s with his “New York Trilogy” of metaphysical mysteries and his hip film “Smoke”, about the lost souls who patronise a Brooklyn tobacco shop.
His more than 30 books are as likely to be found in airports as on university reading lists and have been translated into more than 40 languages.
In recent years his life was marred by tragedy, with his 10-month-old granddaughter dying after ingesting heroin and his son Daniel dying of an overdose 10 months later.
Neither of…
