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Timbuktu: A Novel

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4 out of 5
Based on 130 Ratings and 125 Reviews

Book Description
In Timbuktu Paul Auster tackles homelessness in America using a dog as his point-of-view character. Strange as the premise seems, it's been done before, in John Berger's King, and it actually works. Filtering the homeless experience through the relentlessly unsentimental eye of a dog, both writers avoid miring their tales in an excess of melodrama. Whereas Berger's book skips among several c... More
Book Information
PublisherPicador USA
BindingPaperback (8 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages192
ISBN-100312263996
ISBN-13978-0312263997
Publication Date05/01/2000
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About Paul Auster (Author) : Paul Auster is a published author, editor, and a narrator of young adult books. Published credits of Paul Auster include Timbuktu.
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