True Tales of American Life - Paul Auster

I like structured dancing lessons: learning a routine, building on it each week, adding a bit here, tweaking a bit there. I like development and understanding, neither of which you can get from a single one-off class. It's the same with books. I like chapters, characters, plots and storylines, which is why I usually favour full-length novels over short stories. Therefore, I wasn't sure what to expect from this book. Would I like it? Would I even be able to tolerate the style, seeing as the 180 stories were penned by everyday Americans, not published authors? Was the reason it was on sale as an English language book in Germany because no one in the English language world ...  Read the complete review