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Paperback | Pages: 318 pages Rating: 3.93 | 11489 Users | 525 Reviews
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| Title | : | Mr. Vertigo |
| Author | : | Paul Auster |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 318 pages |
| Published | : | June 2nd 1997 by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag (first published April 1994) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. American |
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Auf einem Jahrmarkt in Kansas spaziert im Jahre 1927 der zwölfjährige Waisenjunge Walter Clairborne Rawley durch die Lüfte. Es ist der Beginn einer wundersamen Karriere. Doch bald geraten Walt - frech, scharfzüngig und nie um einen Trick verlegen - und sein Lehrmeister Yehudi ins Visier derSchurken und Gangster Amerikas.Paul Austers abenteuerlicher Roman ist ein Gleichnis von ökonomischen Aufstieg und moralischem Verfall, ein Spiel mit den Mythen und Idealen eines Landes, das sich noch unschuldig wähnt, doch längst durch Gier und Übermut gefährdet ist.
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| Original Title: | Mr. Vertigo |
| ISBN: | 3499221527 (ISBN13: 9783499221521) |
| Edition Language: | German |
| Characters: | Walt Rawley, Master Yehudi., Aesop, Mother Sioux, Uncle Slim |
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Hmmm. Three Paul Auster books under my belt and all three I have awarded 3 stars. I had higher hopes for this one. In fact I would go so far to say I loved the first third of the book. 'Tis a page-turning romp all about Walt, a poorly orphan, who is plucked from his destiny to fulfil anothers, that of Master Yehudi. For the Master has been searching all his life for the one boy he could teach to fly.A punishing, almost sadistic training schedule begins, for the Master must break Walt in order toReading this book, I couldn't stop thinking about a very different author, Paul Coelho, who wrote a very similar kind of novel, The Alchemist. Both of them are more a parable than a book, a motivational speaking seminar designed to make you wake up and realize the miracles that you (yes YOU) could make happen if you only dared to believe they were possible. In Mr. Vertigo, the feat is flying, in the Alchemist it's "becoming the wind" or something of the sort. Mr. Vertigo's telling is more
This was my second Auster book and I read it about a year ago now. It's a magical realism type affair which features the main character Walt who meets a mysterious Master Yeuhdi character who takes him under his arm and agrees to train him...to flipping fly! That's not a spoiler by the way as it states this in the book description. They end up living together with some other characters and Walt's grueling training starts, his zany new master determined for him to succeed. The first two thirds of
A bombastic failure of the Book of Illusions-Brooklyn Follies type. (Oh, these Auster books--you know what I mean.) A very over-hyped writer does his own take on the fantastic American Man/myth embodiment--cough cough silence cough. (Major pity I read the phenomenal "Billy Bathgate", another tidy rags to dirty riches story, earlier this year. This is like the Hallmark Movie Network version of that grade-A literarily-earned machofable.) Timbuktu, Invisible, New York Trilogy, these are the only
I listened to more than half of this and could stand it no longer. The audiobook narration by Kevin Pariseau is perfectly fine. I have no complaints whatsoever on this account. It is the book itself I had trouble with. -It is about a boy who can fly. There is absolutely no way I can deal with the fantasy of this. -I detested the crude, vulgar language. Farts and defecating and continuous swearing. -The plot is simplistic.-The details of the time and setting are minimal. This is not historical
Having discovered and fallen in love with Auster's writing earlier this year, I have by now read most of his books. I liked them all very much and gave them all top ratings, but this book has really knocked it out of the ballpark. There is an epic quality to this story, a tale of a life that varies from strange to ordinary to strange and spans about eight decades. There are larger than life characters with grandness and pizazz and amazing supporting characters with so much kindness and love
I would rather forget that I read this book and even more that this was a book by Paul Auster, my beloved Paul Auster. No, it cant be. Delete from memory!
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