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Roger Auster, 19, from Minchinhampton near Stroud, made his attempt on Gwithian Beach in Cornwall earlier.
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Written by Ellen Benjamin Wong, working from a story by Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt, Miranda July, and Wang.
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Hustvedt's husband, acclaimed writer Paul Auster, whom she lives with in New York, has described her as an "obsessive" reader.
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He started out as a rancher, asbestos miner, and prospector in the Pilbara, a vast sweltering wilderness in northwest Australia. (It is pronounced as two syllables: Pilbra.) In November, 1952, according to legend, he was flying in a flimsy little Auster aircraft with his wife, Hope, over the Hamersley Range, an extra-remote fastness in the Pilbara.
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