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Violence
Barely any
No violence; the suffering is self-imposed poverty
Language
Some
Moderate adult language throughout
Sexual Content
Some
Adult romantic relationships; some content
Substance Use
Some
Moderate drinking and some drug use in the 1960s New York setting
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological portrait of a man who dismantles his own life to see what remains
What this book is about
Marco Stanley Fogg, a young man in 1960s New York, allows himself to descend into poverty and near-starvation before being rescued—and then uncovers a series of coincidences connecting him to the men who came before him. Paul Auster's third novel is his most emotionally warm, weaving together three generations of lonely men and the fictions they construct.
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