biography
pronunciation:
[awster]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1947– )
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Newark, New Jersey, USA.He studied at Columbia University, then lived in France for four years. Since 1974 he has published poems, essays, novels and translations. His use of detective-story techniques to explore modern urban identity is evident in The New York Trilogy (1985–6). Later books include The Music of Chance (1990), Leviathan (1992), and Timbuktu (1999). |
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