Oracle Night

Author: Paul Auster

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780571276622
  • : Faber and Faber
  • : Faber and Faber
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  • : 0.184
  • : June 2011
  • : 198mm X 126mm X 14mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : August 2011
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  • : Paul Auster
  • : Paperback
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  • : 813.6
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Barcode 9780571276622
9780571276622

Description

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. Paul Auster's mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. "Oracle Night" is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.

Promotion info

The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside-down in this compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time' (San Francisco Chronicle).

Author description

Paul Auster was born in New Jersey in 1947. After attending Columbia University he lived in France for four years. Since 1974 he has published poems, essays, novels, screenplays, and translations. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.