{"product_id":"leviathan-by-paul-auster","title":"'Leviathan' by Paul Auster","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"30\" data-end=\"543\"\u003eBenjamin Sachs, a writer and political dissident of sorts, is blown apart by his own bomb on a roadside in Wisconsin.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"30\" data-end=\"543\"\u003eFrom there the novel is reconstructed by his friend Peter Aaron, who tries to explain how Sachs moved from literary life into secrecy, reinvention, and American extremity. The book is part intellectual mystery, part portrait of friendship, part study of how a person slips out of the ordinary social script and becomes something stranger, harsher, more symbolic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"975\"\u003eThis is Auster in one of his most recognisable modes, where coincidence, doubling, identity drift, narration as pursuit all make you grip the seat as you read. But \u003cem data-start=\"664\" data-end=\"675\"\u003eLeviathan\u003c\/em\u003e is tighter and more political than some of his more airy metafictional work, it's inward look at authorship, surveillance, violence, and the seductive American urge to turn private fracture into public gesture make it one of his that I've preferred of them all. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44259564585043,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-20T131958.279.png?v=1773973214","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/leviathan-by-paul-auster","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}