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Oracle Night

Oracle Night

by PaulAuster (Author)

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    Paperback 2005

    $3.35
Synopsis

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of 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...

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: paperback / softback
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 03 Feb 2005
ISBN 10: 0571216978
ISBN 13: 9780571216970

Media Reviews
'So compelling, so seamlessly written, that it is almost perfect.' Scotland on Sunday 'A joy to read... readers get more than their money's worth in plain good story-telling.' Economist; 'Stunning... absorbing and hypnotic.' Spectator
Author Bio
Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.