Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel―a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself. An incredibly moving, true journey.” ―NPR “A stunningly ambitious novel, and a pleasure to read. A monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes.”― Tom Perrotta, The New York Times Book Review Town & Country‘s “5 Books to Start Off 2017 the Right Way” Read it Forward, Favorite Reads of January 2017 The Millions’s “Most Anticipated” Vulture’s “Most Exciting Book Releases for 2017” The Washington Post ’s Books to Read in 2017 Chicago Tribune’s “Books We’re Excited About in 2017”

New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller * * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * *

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