Auster
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of Auster
1325–75; Middle English < Latin
Example Sentences
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Writers who died this year include the novelists Edna O'Brien and Paul Auster, and the short-story writer Alice Munro.
From BBC
Paul Auster was praised for his sharp dialogue, and his books have been translated into more than 40 languages.
From BBC
Downey’s McNeal has the chiseled masculine swagger of such writers as Richard Ford and Paul Auster.
From Los Angeles Times
“Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain,” novelist Paul Auster once wrote.
From Seattle Times
Other references include the parallel realities in Paul Auster’s fiction and the enigmas of “Last Year at Marienbad,” an Alain Resnais film from the early 1960s in which characters explore palatial spaces and contemplate the past.
From New York Times
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