
Burning Boy
The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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Paul Auster
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Paul Auster
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Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times best-selling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.
With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age 28.
Auster’s probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at 20 disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York Police Department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville’s most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near-drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death.
In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive listen about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane’s astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane’s creative processes to produce the rarest of listening experiences - the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.
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2022, L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner
2022, L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
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Auster on Crane
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My New Go To - Paul Auster.
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Paul Auster has provided me with so much context to better understand and appreciate the things that I have loved about Crane’s work and where he fits into 20th century literature and culture. Taking this audiobook on is not for the faint of heart or ear because of Burning Boy’s length and depth, but for those unfamiliar with Crane you will get everything you need.
Stephen Crane is one of the most bluntly honest modern writers that I have lived with and has shaped my understanding of the world. Auster has clearly put tremendous effort into making it clear why Crane matters to us in the 21st century and has written a book that is worth all the effort it takes to read, or listen to.
Long but wonderful!
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Brilliant and enjoyable
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Honest and straightforward language with wonderful insights that reveal the author’s passion for his subject and truth.
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Paul Auster reads Paul Auster.
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Absolutely fantastic.
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Wow, Crane Is Great!
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A great book to read in order to understand the beginning of modern American literature.
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It’s time to re-read “Red Badge”
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