True Tales of American Life

First UK edition. 8vo. xxi-[xxiv], 383, [11]pp., illus., index. Black paper-boards, lettered in light green to spine; red endpapers. In a wrap-around, red pictorial dust jacket.

Signed by Auster to title page.

Edited and introduced by Paul Auster. In association with NPR's All Things Considered National Story Project. Originally published by Henry Holt and Co. in the US under the title I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project.

A selection of 180 true stories chosen from over 4000 submissions, covering the whole gamut of American lived experience, and stretching as far back as the Civil War to the present. "[T]he one-to three-page stories gathered in this astonishing, addictive collection are absolute gems." –Publishers' Weekly