Baumgartner Publisher / National Library of Australia Hansell has lived in the

Hansell has lived in the Windsor and Hawkesbury district for many years

we’re often a bit vague: we might say we long for someone ‘fun’

like Gracie Green and Matthew Gill

Elizabeth Boon and Trent Walter

and static to sensorial

Baumgartner Publisher / National Library of Australia Hansell has lived in theA late masterpiece of love, memory and grief by Paul Auster, 'one of the great American prose stylists of our time'. Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is a tender late