Mr. Vertigo, (Paperback)

from eclecticheart

This isn't your typical Paul Auster. I tend to think of his works as contemporary New York, but this is a Great Depression era novel set primarily in the Midwest. That said, a number of his common ...

from technodiabla

I do not generally like magical realism but this book was amusing and touching and the magic was well integrated into the story. The story is told from the point of view of an orphan in 1920s Ameri...

from FrkFrigg

I found it quite different from the other Auster books I've read. There's usually this magic realism, this sense of 'something's not quite right, but you can't put your finger on exactly what it is...

from browner56

Mr. Vertigo tells the life story of Walter Claireborne Rawley, from his boyhood as an orphan in St. Louis during the 1920s to his reflections as an old man some 70 years later. The pivotal event fo...

from technodiabla

I do not generally like magical realism but this book was amusing and touching and the magic was well integrated into the story. The story is told from the point of view of an orphan in 1920s Ameri...