Timbuktu
Subtitle: a novel
By: Paul Auster.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: High school teachers -- Fiction.; Homeless persons -- Fiction.; Dog owners -- Fiction.; Poets -- Fiction.; Dogs -- Fiction.; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.; Baltimore (Md.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a last great adventure, heading for Baltimore, Maryland, in search of Bea Swanson, Willy's high school English teacher.

Years have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who knew him in his previous incarnation as William Gurevitch, the son of Polish war refugees. Is Mrs. Swanson still alive? And if she isn't, what will prevent Willy from vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu?