| In Winter Journal, Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother, love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived, her troubled later years and, finally, her death - and the subsequent anxiety attacks Auster suffered in the face of her death. In Winter Journal Auster moves through the events of his life in a random series of memories grasped from the point of view of his life now: playing baseball as a teenager, participating in the anti-Vietnam demonstrations at Columbia University, seeking out prostitutes in Paris, almost killing his second wife and child in a car accident, falling in and out of live with his first wife. |
