The Inner Life of Martin Frost A Film [Paperback]

A Picador Paperback Original

A new movie written and directed by Paul Auster, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie Auster.

FromThe New York TrilogytoThe Book of IllusionsandTravels in the Scriptorium,Paul Auster is one of America's most spectacularly inventive novelists.Smoke, Blue in the Face,andLulu on the Bridgeestablished him as an award-winning filmmaker.The Inner Life of Martin Frostbrings together his talents as a novelist and filmmaker with a work that is tender, moving, and funny.

Searching for solitude, the writer Martin Frost borrows a friend's country house. Waking up one morning, he is shocked to find a nearly naked young woman beside him in bed. She also has a key to the house and claims to be the owner's niece. Martin's initial annoyance at Claire's intrusion is rapidly forgotten as he falls passionately in love with her. Even when it is revealed that Claire is not who she claims to be, their idyllic passion continues--until she suddenly falls ill.

The Inner Life of Martin Frostis based on an imaginary film that appears in his novelThe Book of Illusions. Unlike the fictional Hector Spelling's lost 1946 black and white film of the same title, Auster's luminous celebration of the mysteries of love, art, and the imagination will be released in 2007.

Paul Austeris the bestselling author of thirteen novels, includingTravels in the Scriptoriumcoming from Henry Holt in February 2007. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.