I unexpectedly came across my old copies of The Invention of Solitude and Moon Palace just now. When Auster died recently, I thought I’d like to read Moon Palace again but assumed I’d left my copy behind somewhere, possibly decades ago. I hadn’t even been looking for it 📚

Front covers of two books by Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude and Moon Palace Back covers of two Faber paperbacks of books by Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude and Moon Palace. The description of the latter reads: Moon Palace is the story of Marco Stanley Fogg — a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this [the twentieth] century to the first lunar landings; and that moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West.