Paul Auster
Moon Palace
The late great Paul Auster has such a reputation for being a dazzling writer - shining the light of metafiction into your eyes; parodying a genre; or being three steps ahead of the reader - that it can be difficult to relax into an Auster and luxuriate in the sheer mastery of the writing. But time and again, he shows us that he is just as capable of engrossing us in a fascinating yarn as he is in re-defining the detective story or adding metaphysical touches.