Praise for Baumgartner: "Baumgartner's mind is full of late-life insights and angst, while his capacity for love provides a rich emotional seam. Auster packs a lot into this slim novel. An always intriguing writer." - Kirkus "The subject of lost loved ones and all that follows in the wake of such a loss is hardly unusual in contemporary literature, but PaulAuster's Baumgartner is a worthy addition to the body of fiction that treats the subject. It's a well-drawn portrait of a man wrestlingwith grief, and a sensitive character study that displays many of the qualities for which Auster's been lauded in a long literary career. Baumgartner's story is revealed in episodic fashion and with precise, observant, and sometimes touching detail. Poignant." - Shelf Awareness "Auster presents his eighteenth novel, a finely distilled tale of a charmingly self-deprecating and forthright intellectual and romantic.

Auster's portrait of a thoughtful man embracing loss and love is a gorgeous, subtly suspenseful revelation of the covert dramas of a contemplative, kind, and expressive life." -- Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) Praise for Paul Auster: "One of the great American prose stylists of our time." -- New York Times "Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." -- New York Review of Books "One of the great writers of our time." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Contemporary American writing at its best." -- New York Times Book Review, on Invisible "A literary original who is perfecting a hybrid genre of his own." -- Wall Street Journal.