num_pages: 866
description: Nearly two weeks early on March 3 1947 in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark New Jersey Archibald Isaac Ferguson the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson is born. From that single beginning Fergusons life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA four boys who are the same boy go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile readers will take in each Fergusons pleasures and ache from each Fergusons pains as the mortal plot of each Fergusons life rushes on.As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force.
language: English
title: 4 3 2 1
publisher: Henry Holt and Co.