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4 3 2 1 / Paul Auster.

ISBN: 1627794468
ISBN: 9781627794466
Physical Description: 866 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2017.

Four, three, two, one (other title)

Auster, Paul, 1947-2024 (author.).

Summary:

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 themagnificent 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.-- Provided by publisher.