4 3 2 1

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Label

4 3 2 1

Statement of responsibility

Paul Auster

Title variation

• Four, three, two, one
• 4321

Creator

• trueAuster, Paul, 1947-

Author

• trueAuster, Paul, 1947-

Subject

• true20th century -- 1901 -- 2000
• trueComing-of-age stories
• Family life -- Fiction
• trueFamily relationships
• Fiction
• Fiction
• trueGrowing up
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueIdentity (Psychology)
• Jewish families
• Jewish families -- Fiction
• trueJewish fiction
• trueJewish men
• trueLife change events
• trueLiterary fiction
• trueLove stories
• Man-woman relationships
• Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
• trueMen -- Psychology
• trueMen/women relations
• trueNew Jersey
• Romance fiction
• Romance fiction

Genre

• trueComing-of-age stories
• Fiction
• trueHistorical fiction
• trueJewish fiction
• trueLiterary fiction
• trueLove stories
• Romance fiction

Language

eng

Summary

• "Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel -- a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. 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, Ferguson's 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 Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's 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."--
• "A sweeping family saga (with a bit of a twist) about the life and loves of Archie Ferguson, a Jewish boy born to second-generation immigrants in the United States just after World War II"--

Theme

• trueTime and again

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven
• trueSweeping
• trueUnconventional

Tone

• trueMoving

Writing style

• trueDescriptive
• trueEngaging
• trueStylistically complex

Character

• trueComplex
• trueReligiously diverse

Award

• Booklist Editors' Choice, 2017.
• New York Times Notable Book, 2017

Assigning source

• Provided by publisher
• Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

index present

LC call number

PS3551.U77

LC item number

A615 2017

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult