Praise for Baumgartner:

"Baumgartner's mind is full of late-life insights and angst, while his capacity for love provides a rich emotional seam. Auster packs a lot into this slim novel... An always intriguing writer." - Kirkus

"The subject of lost loved ones and all that follows in the wake of such a loss is hardly unusual in contemporary literature, but Paul
Auster's Baumgartner is a worthy addition to the body of fiction that treats the subject. It's a well-drawn portrait of a man wrestling
with grief, and a sensitive character study that displays many of the qualities for which Auster's been lauded in a long literary career... Baumgartner's story is revealed in episodic fashion and with precise, observant, and sometimes touching detail... Poignant." - Shelf Awareness

"Auster presents his eighteenth novel, a finely distilled tale of a charmingly self-deprecating and forthright intellectual and romantic... Auster's portrait of a thoughtful man embracing loss and love is a gorgeous, subtly suspenseful revelation of the covert dramas of a contemplative, kind, and expressive life." -- Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review)

Praise for Paul Auster:

"One of the great American prose stylists of our time." --New York Times

"Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." --New York Review of Books

"One of the great writers of our time." --San Francisco Chronicle

"Contemporary American writing at its best." --New York Times Book Review, on Invisible

"A literary original who is perfecting a hybrid genre of his own." --Wall Street Journal