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Oracle Night

A Novel

Oracle Night( )
Author: Auster, Paul
ISBN:978-0-312-42895-2
Publication Date:Apr 2009
Publisher:Picador
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.00
Book Description:

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. A novel that expands to fill volumes...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / City Life
Fiction / Psychological
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.53 x 8.25 x 0.73 Inches
Book Weight:0.506 Pounds
Author Biography
Auster, Paul (Author)
Paul Auster was born on February 3, 1947, in Newark, New Jersey. He received a B.A. and a M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. In addition to his career as a writer, Auster has been a census taker, tutor, merchant seaman, little-league baseball coach, and a telephone operator. He started his writing career as a translator. He soon gained popularity for the detective novels that make up his New York Trilogy. His other works include The Invention of Solitude; Leviathan; Moon Palace; Facing the Music; In the Country of Last Things; The Music of Chance; Mr. Vertigo; and The Brooklyn Follies. His latest novels are entitled, Invisible and Sunset Park. In addition to his novels, Auster has written screenplays and directed several films. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a French Prix Medicis for Foreign Literature.

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