The Independent - London, October 4th, 2002
PAUL AUSTER'S 10th novel offers all his most reliable themes in one of their most palatable presentations. It purports to be the memoir of an American academic, the forlorn David Zimmer. He is a man to whom misfortune is not so much a visitor as the pesky lodger for whom he cooks three huge meals a day. His world has been destroyed long before the reader encounters his actuality; a freak plane accident killed his wife and sons and left him with a fortune in insurance payouts - but nothing to live for.
During months of acute self-pity and alcohol-fuelled bouts of TV watching, he happens to see...
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