Report from the Interior

From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, Paul Auster charts his moral, political, and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the postwar 1950s into the turbulent 1960s. At once a story of the times and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, Report from the Interior is autobiography done in ways rarely seen before. Book jacket.