GET LIT: Win a copy of Paul Auster's Sunset Park
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| Henry Holt, 320 pp., $25, Nov. 9 |
Pieced together from the narratives of six well-drawn yet all uniquely unreliable characters, Miles Heller's life story unspools over the course of Paul Auster's latest novel, Sunset Park. We meet Miles, a 28-year-old trash-out worker removing the angry traces and bitter remnants left by desperate former homeowners in the barrens of Florida's real estate collapse. Driven to document the slivers of lives left behind, Miles snaps desolate digital images that bear witness to the varying shades of gray and acknowledge all the blame and greed that color the crash. Echoing this cloudy palette, Auster's narrators (among them Miles' father, his high school buddy, and two women with whom he shares a squat in Brooklyn) reconstruct the unanchored adulthood that lands Miles in the Sunshine State.To win a copy, be the first (or second!) to answer the following trivia question:
Paul Auster's wife is also a novelist. What is the name of her most recent book?
E-mail me at carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win; and check back on Monday, when we'll be giving away My Year of Flops. [UPDATE, 4:17 p.m.]: We have our winners! Congrats to Jackie and Kevin. (Paul Auster's wife, Siri Hustvedt, has written many novels, including The Blindfold, What I Loved and, most recently, The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves.) Thanks for playing!
