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Oracle Night

Oracle Night

by PaulAuster (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

"Oracle Night is a compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time." (San Francisco Chronicle). 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. If The New York Trilogy was Paul Auster's detective story, his 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. "His old-fashioned art of creating suspense ...which rivals M. R. James or Conan Doyle. In fact, Oracle Night is best read as a post-modern ghost story." (The Guardian).

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 02 Jun 2011
ISBN 10: 0571276628
ISBN 13: 9780571276622
Book Overview: Oracle Night by Paul Auster - 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).

Media Reviews
Compulsively readable yet wonderfully complex and unsettling. The book is both a babushka doll of stories within stories and a literary Rubik's Cube, the solution of which, if there is one, is the very nature of reality. -- The Boston Globe
Auster shines as a fabulist and tale-teller, putting a high-modernist gloss on noir. -- The New Yorker
A joy to read. -- The Economist
It's urban mysticism, a poetry of the hidden and the almost forgotten, with the supernatural power deriving equally from the city and the novelist's imagination. . . . A snow globe of a novel. -- New York magazine
Oracle Night is a triumph for novelist Auster. It cements his growing reputation as one of America's most inventive and original writers. -- The Seattle Times
As Auster's many admirers know, his narrative voice is as hypnotic as that of the Ancient Mariner. Start one of his books and by page two you cannot choose but hear. --Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books
Compulsively readable yet wonderfully complex and unsettling. The book is both a babushka doll of stories within stories and a literary Rubik's Cube, the solution of which, if there is one, is the very nature of reality. -- The Boston Globe
Auster shines as a fabulist and tale-teller, putting a high-modernist gloss on noir. -- The New Yorker
A joy to read. -- The Economist
It's urban mysticism, a poetry of the hidden and the almost forgotten, with the supernatural power deriving equally from the city and the novelist's imagination. . . . A snow globe of a novel. -- New York magazine
Oracle Night is a triumph for novelist Auster. It cements his growing reputation as one of America's most inventive and original writers. -- The Seattle Times
Author Bio
Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Moon Palace, Mr Vertigo, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and 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.