Like Archie Ferguson, you were born in New Jersey in 1947. That was a very precise and apt description of the book - the structure of it - so thank you for that. Paul Auster, welcome to the program once again. Auster has dealt his baby boomer protagonist four different hands and each set of cards leads Archie Ferguson to a different place by the book's end.
He may go to college or not go to college. In one story, Archie's father's business thrives. In each story, Archie Ferguson's life takes a set of distinctive turns. In fact, the heroes of Auster's novel are four different Archie Fergusons, each born to the same circumstances, the same parents but each with his own story.
The hero of Paul Auster's new coming-of-age novel, "4 3 2 1," is Archie Ferguson, born in 1947 in New Jersey to middle-class, Jewish parents.
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