Baumgartner: A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the worlds great writers.

And Then It Started, Little By Little It Started, Until They Were Married Five Years Later And His Real Life Began.Exquisite ... A SuperAbundantly Gifted, BigHearted Novelist. Ian McewanA Writer Whose Work Shines With Intelligence And Originality. Don Delillothe Life Of Sy Baumgartner Noted Author, And SoonToBe Retired Philosophy Professor Has Been Defined By His Deep, Abiding Love For His Wife. Now Anna Is Gone, And Baumgartner Is Trying To Live With Her Absence. But AnnaS Voice Is Everywhere Still, In Every Spiral Of Memory And Reminiscence, In Each Recalled Episode Of The Passionate Forty Years They Shared.Rich With Feeling, Wit And An Eye For Beauty In The Smallest, Most Transient Episodes Of Ordinary Life, Baumgartner Is A Luminous Work A Tender Final Masterpiece From One Of The WorldS Greatest Writers.A Master. The Timeswhat Readers Are Saying:***** Perfect, Subtle, Charming, Funny And Sad.**** WellWritten And Compelling But Also Comforting, Like Catching Up With An Old Friend.**** A, BeautifullyWritten And Intelligent Piece Of Understated Introspective Fiction From Auster.