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Mr. Vertigo Paperback - 1995
by Paul Auster
The author of Leviathan returns with a dazzling, picaresque, new novel in which Walter Claireborne Rawley, now an octogenarian, recounts his extraordinary vaudevillian adventures as "Walt the Wonder Boy" in 1924. "One hears every page of this novel, and sees it as well".--Washington Post.
Summary
Paul Auster, the New York Times-bestselling author of The New York Trilogy presents a dazzling, picaresque novel set in the late 1920s the era of Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, and Al Capone. Walter Claireborne Rawley, renowned nationwide as "Walt the Wonder Boy," is a Saint Louis orphan rescued from the streets by a mysterious Hungarian Jew, Master Yehudi, who teaches Walt to walk on air. Master Yehudi brings Walt into a Kansas circus troupe consisting of Mother Sioux and Aesop, a young black genius. The vaudeville act takes them across a vast and vibrant country, through mythic Americana where they meet and fall prey to sinners, thieves, and villains, from the Kansas Ku Klux Klan to the Chicago mob. Walt's rise to fame and fortune mirrors America's own coming of age, and his resilience, like that of the nation, is challenged over and over and over again.
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- Title Mr. Vertigo
- Author Paul Auster
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-08-01
- ISBN 9780140231908 / 0140231900
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Magicians, Bildungsromans
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Review of Books, 12/04/2008, Page 36
- New York Times, 08/06/1995, Page 32
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