Paul Auster & J M Coetzee - Here and Now - Letters 2008-2011

Author(s): Paul Auster; J M Coetzee

Literary

Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, "God willing, strike sparks off each other". "Here and Now" is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, family, marriage, friendship, and love. Their correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other's friendship is apparent on every page.


Product Information

A collection of letters between two of the greatest writers of our time, Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee.

Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, 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 Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed 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 thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

General Fields

  • : 9780571299270
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : Faber & Faber
  • : 0.281
  • : February 2013
  • : 216mm X 135mm X 19mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : January 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Paul Auster; J M Coetzee
  • : Paperback
  • : 813.54
  • : 248