So begins the story told by Peter Aaron and his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a world he shared. and then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or night not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to …
The Red Notebook is the first of a collection of stories in four parts written by American author Paul Auster. These include The Red Notebook, Why Write?, Accident Report and It Don't Mean a Thing. They are true stories gathered from Auster's life as well as the lives of his friends and acquaintances and they have all …
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of …