Paul Auster's Sunset Park

I've always enjoyed his books, but admittedly haven't read any of his recent work. What are your specific complaints?

I wonder how much time he's spent in the neighborhood (not much, apparently). It also sounds like the subject matter is a bit boring. I've noticed that authors sometimes lose their spark - as though they run out of ideas, or maybe turn out the occasional clunker.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into this book, but it sounds like it might be something I should avoid.

I've read everything by Auster, including his latest novel Sunset Park. Interestingly, I live in Sunset Park. Based on his description and location of the squatted house the youngsters in the book shared in Sunset Park along Green-wood Cemetery, it seems that Auster in fact used a real specific property. I'm convinced because I live so close, and the fact that how he describes the location of the house in the book--between 4th and 5th Aves, directly across from the cemetery (in this case, the axillary end) and right next to an abandoned construction site--it can only be one particular street. Interestingly, the house has been torn down and is now an empty lot with boards that close it off. But I happen to have an image of the house before it was torn down, and it is in fact a remarkable resemblance to how Auster describes it.

I suppose I think it's pretty cool because for as long as I have been a fan of Paul Auster, and turning the short period while I was reading Sunset Park, I often looked out my window at the now empty lot imagining the youngsters in their squatted little habitat.