Timbuktu
a novel
by Paul Auster
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Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and altogether original poet-saint from Brooklyn. Like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza before them, they sally forth on a last great adventure, heading for Baltimore, Maryland, in search of Bea Swanson, Willy's high school English teacher.
Years have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who knew him in his previous incarnation as William Gurevitch, the son of Polish war refugees. Is Mrs. Swanson still alive? And if she isn't, what will prevent Willy from vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu?
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High school teachers, Poets, Dog owners, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction, Homeless persons, Dogs, Romans, nouvelles, Nichtsesshafter, Hund, Baltimore, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fiction, general, Baltimore (md.), fiction, Maryland, fiction, Dog owners, fiction, Teachers, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Reminiscing, ChiensShowing 9 featured editions. View all 29 editions?
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First Sentence
"MR. BONES KNEW THAT WILLY WASN'T long for this world."
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Timbuktu is a 1999 novella by Paul Auster. It is about the life of a dog, Mr Bones, who is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his homeless master is dying. The story, set in the early 1990s, is told through the eyes of Mr Bones, who, although not anthropomorphised, has an internal monologue in English.
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