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Mr. Vértigo(c.2) by Paul Auster is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Mr. Vértigo(c.2) about?
In Mr. Vertigo, his dazzling eighth novel, Paul Auster introduces a quintessentially American hero who, early in his life, masters the art of the unimaginable, and then must live out his days long after the magic has been lost and forgotten. It is 1927, the year of Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh - and of Walter Claireborne Rawley, a streetwise orphan from Saint Louis who becomes "Walt the Wonder Boy," a diminutive showman famous for stunning audiences across the country with his feats of levitation. Walt's teacher is Master Yehudi, a mysterious iconoclast who rescues him from poverty and instills in him the faith, fearlessness, and devotion to hard work essential to such a magnificent venture. Inevitably, Master Yehudi and Walt fall prey to the sinners thieves, and villains of America in its pre-depression heyday, from the Kansas Ku Klux Klan to the Chicago mob, and Walt's resilience, like that of his young nation, is over and again challenged. Paul Auster, a "literary original" (Wall Street Journal) whose "bounties of intelligence, mystery and literary magic nourish and delight the mind" (Chicago Sun-Times), embraces both the realist and the mythic traditions in American literatu
Who reads Mr. Vértigo(c.2)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Paul Auster
- Publisher
- Editorial Anagrama S.A.
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- ES
- ISBN
- 9788433967794
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (104 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Mister Vertigo (1995)
- Mr vertigo (Romans, nouvelles, récits) (2006)
- Mr vertigo (Romans, nouvelles, récits) (1994)
- Mr. Vertigo (1995)
- Mr. Vertigo (2013)
- Mr. Vertigo (1994)
- Mr Vertigo (Babel) (1994)
- Mr Vertigo (OLNA) (1994)
- Mr. Vertigo (2000)
- Mr. Vértigo (Panorama de narrativas) (2021)
- Mr. Vértigo (Panorama de narrativas) (1993)
- Mister Vertigo (1994)
- Mr Vertigo, Tombouctou, Le Livre des illusions, La Nuit de l'oracle, Brooklyn Follies, Dans le scriptorium (2011)
- Mr. Vertigo : Roman (1997)
- Mr. Vértigo (Compactos Anagrama) (2004)
- Mr. Vertigo (2010)
- Mr Vertigo (Babel) (1995)
- Mr vertigo (Romans, nouvelles, récits) (2011)
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