The powerHouse Arena is pleased to invite you
to a reading, discussion, and signing:

Paul Auster

in conversation with Granta editor

John Freeman

on Auster's new novel

Invisible

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 7–9pm

The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
For more information, please call (718) 666-3049
RSVP: invisible@powerhousearena.com

We're thrilled to announce that this November, the Arena will welcome Brooklyn's own Paul Auster, to read, sign, discuss, and celebrate the publication of his new novel, Invisible. All over Brooklyn you can find Auster's 15 novels shelved as classics and best sellers, as staff picks and local favorites; and beyond our borough you can find his books—including The New York Trilogy and The Brooklyn Follies—being read and praised and reread all over the world. John Freeman, editor of Granta and former chair of the National Book Critics Circle, will host the evening and discuss with the author the new book that has been heralded as his most passionate and surprising book to date.

About Invisible:

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when 20-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.

Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights to the Left Bank of Paris to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers," (The Times Literary Supplement).

About Paul Auster:

Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, and The Book of Illusions. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project Anthology, which he edited, was also a national best seller. His work has been translated into more than 30 languages. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

About John Freeman:

John Freeman is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, People, and The Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson PageTurner Award. He was recently named editor of Granta. He lives in New York City and London.

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powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

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