{"product_id":"4-3-2-1-9781250618801","title":"4 3 2 1","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Man Booker Prize\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, and Indiebound Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Auster's magnum opus, \u003ci\u003e4 3 2 1 \u003c\/i\u003epresents a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An epic bildungsroman . . . . Original and complex . . . . A monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes.\"--Tom Perrotta, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNearly 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. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. 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. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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 the author before, \u003ci\u003e4 3 2 1 \u003c\/i\u003eis a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A stunningly ambitious novel, and a pleasure to read. . . . An incredibly moving, true journey.\"\u003ci\u003e--NPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Auster\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWinter Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSunset Park\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInvisible\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other works. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Prix Médicis étranger, an Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577246191890,"sku":"9781250618801","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_569d2d4d-0fbd-4664-abdb-0e029a46d491.jpg?v=1731995687","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/4-3-2-1-9781250618801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}