{"product_id":"9781399753845-ghost-stories","title":"Ghost Stories","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Memoir - 'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' David Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis Siri Hustvedt's tender memoir of the forty-three years she spent with her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster: from their first encounter in 1980s New York, to his death in 2024. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing Paul Auster's last ever piece of writing. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe tender memoir of the forty-three years Siri Hustvedt spent with her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster - from their first encounter in 1980s New York through the highs and lows of love, family and grief\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The delight to be found in Hustvedt's book arises because so much of the landscape revealed is one of love. Love of life, love of the world, love of family. \u003ci\u003eGhost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e will console you for the losses you have suffered, and for the ones you know - we all know - are yet to come'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOBSERVER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A profound and forthright meditation on love and loss, unique in our literature'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eINDEPENDENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Rich with accounts of their life together'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Distinctive and genuinely moving'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a patchwork-quilt book that stitches together memories from over forty years of love and life together: journal entries Siri wrote between November 2023 and 3 May 2024, the day of Paul's funeral; emails Siri sent to friends during his cancer treatment; notes Paul sent her over the course of their relationship; and three love letters Siri wrote to him in 1981, when he left her for a period of nine or ten days to return to his former life with his first wife and son.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book also contains Paul Auster's last ever piece of writing - the first thirty-five pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to Siri's and his grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander, born on 1 January 2024.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnflinching, tender and wise, this is the full-bodied story of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster's life together, an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A remarkable achievement'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLOUISE KENNEDY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSARAH WATERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What a kind, honest book.  What a gift of love'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID MITCHELL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Essential reading from an all-time great'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSARA COLLINS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA note from Siri\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'I began writing Ghost Stories shortly after my husband, Paul Auster, died on April 30th 2024. My meditations on Paul's cancer, his death, my grief, the potent feeling I had of his presence on the day he was buried, and my memories from the years we spent together are interwoven with several texts that were written before he died: twelve letters I wrote to friends during his cancer treatment; journal entries I wrote between early November, 2023 and May 3, 2024; and three love letters I wrote to Paul in 1981, when he left me for a period of nine or ten days to return to his former life. Although I knew Paul had saved those letters, I hadn't read them since they were written and had only a foggy recollection of their content. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the last month of his life, Paul began writing what he hoped would be a small book of letters to our grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander, who was born on January 1st, 2024. Paul was too weak to finish it as planned, but the thirty-five pages he did manage to write are interwoven in this book. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI want to stress that Paul's text is not an appendix to mine but an integral part of the book as a whole. Because the memoir turns on attachment, betweenness, and dialogue, all crucial to the love affair that lasted forty-three years, the insertion of one author's text into another's, is, in this case, essential to the memoir's overall meaning.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Siri Hustvedt\u003cbr\u003e'Hustvedt is that rare artist, a writer of high intelligence, profound sensuality and a less easily definable capacity for which the only word I can find is wisdom'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'She's a twenty-first-century Virginia Woolf, with many intellectual and creative rooms of her own'\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56585135653238,"sku":"9781399753845","price":19.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_39482602_5c4c5bd1-d84b-4b23-bd7b-63c5393964a8.jpg?v=1768482149","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781399753845-ghost-stories","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}