zoom_in
AUSTER, Paul

Oracle Night (AUSTER, Paul)

390 CZK
Tax excluded

A novel by the author of The Book of Illusions. 

Reference: 08090A
Availability: In Stock (1 item)
Condition: Used
Quantity
Last items in stock

Book Details

Language
English
Hardcover/Paperback
hardcover
ISBN
0-8050-7320-5
Year
2003
No. of pages
245
Edition
1st Edition
Weight
432 g
Quality Check
book is complete, there are no pages missing
Condition
ořezy neseříznuté, velmi dobrý stav
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Place of publishing
New York

Description

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

Why does his wife suddenly break down in tears in the backseat of a taxi just hours after Sidney begins writing in the notebook? Why does M. R. Chang, the owner of the stationery shop, precipitously shut down his business the next day? What are the connections between a 1938 Warsaw telephone directory and a lost novel in which the hero can predict the future? At what point does animosity explode into violence? To what degree is forgiveness the ultimate expression of love?

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. At once a meditation on the nature of time and a journey through the labyrinth of one man’s imagination, 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.

About the Author

AUSTER, Paul

AUSTER, Paul

Paul Auster’s most recent novel, Timbuktu, was a national bestseller, as was I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Book of Illusions is his tenth novel.

(Source of text and photo: jacket of the book "The Book of Illusions", 2002, Henry Holt and Company, New York, ISBN 0-8050-5408-1.)

16 other products in the category

Czech Curiosities: Out of the Ordinary in the Czech Republic

Have you ever wondered what Hungarian goulash is doing in the Czech Republic? Would you like to know where one of Europe’s largest museums dedicated to washing machines is located? And how about the several places in this quiet, often-overlooked little country where you are welcome to come on over and look for the long-lost treasure no one else has been able to find?

75 CZK

The Merchant of Venice (SHAKESPEARE, William)

Edited by A. W. Verity, M.A., sometime scholar of Trinity College. Contents: Introduction, The Merchant of Venice, Notes, Glossary, Appendix (The Sources of the Play: Shakespeare and Venice: Usury: Some points in the Trial-Scene.), Hints On Metre, Hints on Shakespeare's English, Addenda, Index.

250 CZK

Cutting Edge: Japanese Swords in the British Museum (HARRIS, Victor)

“As well as being a deadly weapon and a unique work of art, the sword in Japan is imbued with a spiritual essence. An appreciation of such beauty, deriving from the laws of nature, is central to the Japanese aesthetic. Like the study of ceramics, the study of the Japanese sword blade as an art form is the study of technical excellence, elegance of shape and beauty of texture.”

850 CZK