<P><B>From the bestselling novelist and author of <I>The Invention of Solitude</I>, a moving and highly personal meditation on the body, time, and language itself</B></P><P>"<I>That is where the story begins, in your body, and everything will end in the body as well.</I> </P><P>Facing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations—both pleasurable and painful. </P><P>Thirty years after the publication of <I>The Invention of Solitude</I>, in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir in which he writes about his mother's life and death. <I>Winter Journal</I> is a highly personal meditation on the body, time, and memory, by one of our most intellectually elegant writers.</P>