Travels in the Scriptorium - Hardcover
An elderly man awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar room, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and as he waits, visited by a series of people who give him frustrating hints about his identity and his past, he peruses the relics on the desk, including a mysterious manuscript about another prisoner in an alternate world. 100,000 first printing.
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"Archly playful and shrewdly philosophical . . . celebrates the power of the imagination . . . the labyrinthine nature of the mind...[a] tribute to the transcendence of stories."--Donna Seaman, "Booklist"
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"This brief work radiates in so many directions . . . that there must be involved in it some sort of magic or wizardry."--"Rain Taxi"
"Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable. . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his storytelling gifts."--Timothy Peters, "San Francisco Chronicle"
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"Auster is one of our most intellectually elegant writers. . . . Themes are hungry ghosts, Borges said. Fortunately, Auster's ghosts are insatiable."--Howard Norman, "The Washington Post Book World"
"One of America's greats . . . The writing is a tight as ever."--Jonathan Messinger, "Time Out Chicago"
"Archly playful and shrewdly philosophical . . . Celebrates the power of the imagination . . . The labyrinthine nature of the mind...[A] tribute to the transcendence of stories."--Donna Seaman, "Booklist""" "This brief work radiates in so many directions . . . that there must be involved in it some sort of magic or wizardry."--"Rain Taxi" "Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable. . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his storytelling gifts."--Timothy Peters, "San Francisco Chronicle""" "Auster is one of our most intellectually elegant writers. . . . Themes are hungry ghosts, Borges said. Fortunately, Auster's ghosts are insatiable."--Howard Norman, "The Washington Post Book World"
"One of America's greats . . . The writing is a tight as ever."--Jonathan Messinger, "Time Out Chicago"
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""
"This brief work radiates in so many directions . . . that there must be involved in it some sort of magic or wizardry."--"Rain Taxi"
"Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable. . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his storytelling gifts."--Timothy Peters, "San Francisco Chronicle"
""
"Auster is one of our most intellectually elegant writers. . . . Themes are hungry ghosts, Borges said. Fortunately, Auster's ghosts are insatiable."--Howard Norman, "The Washington Post Book World"
"One of America's greats . . . The writing is a tight as ever."--Jonathan Messinger, "Time Out Chicago"
"Archly playful and shrewdly philosophical . . . Celebrates the power of the imagination . . . The labyrinthine nature of the mind...[A] tribute to the transcendence of stories."--Donna Seaman, "Booklist""" "This brief work radiates in so many directions . . . that there must be involved in it some sort of magic or wizardry."--"Rain Taxi" "Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable. . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his storytelling gifts."--Timothy Peters, "San Francisco Chronicle""" "Auster is one of our most intellectually elegant writers. . . . Themes are hungry ghosts, Borges said. Fortunately, Auster's ghosts are insatiable."--Howard Norman, "The Washington Post Book World"
"One of America's greats . . . The writing is a tight as ever."--Jonathan Messinger, "Time Out Chicago"
"Archly playful and shrewdly philosophical . . . Celebrates the power of the imagination . . . The labyrinthine nature of the mind...[A] tribute to the transcendence of stories."--Donna Seaman, "Booklist"
""
"This brief work radiates in so many directions . . . that there must be involved in it some sort of magic or wizardry."--"Rain Taxi"
"Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable. . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his storytelling gifts."--Timothy Peters, "San Francisco Chronicle"
"" "Auster is one of our most intellectually elegant writers. . . . Themes are hungry ghosts, Borges said. Fortunately, Auster's ghosts are insatiable."--Howard Norman, "The Washington Post Book World"
"One of America's greats . . . The writing is a tight as ever."--Jonathan Messinger, "Time Out Chicago"
Archly playful and shrewdly philosophical . . . Celebrates the power of the imagination . . . The labyrinthine nature of the mind [A] tribute to the transcendence of stories. "Donna Seaman, Booklist"
This brief work radiates in so many directions . . . that there must be involved in it some sort of magic or wizardry. "Rain Taxi"
Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable. . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his storytelling gifts. "Timothy Peters, San Francisco Chronicle"
Auster is one of our most intellectually elegant writers. . . . Themes are hungry ghosts, Borges said. Fortunately, Auster's ghosts are insatiable. "Howard Norman, The Washington Post Book World"
One of America's greats . . . The writing is a tight as ever. "Jonathan Messinger, Time Out Chicago""
"Archly playful and shrewdly philosophical . . . Celebrates the power of the imagination . . . The labyrinthine nature of the mind...[A] tribute to the transcendence of stories." --Donna Seaman, Booklist
"This brief work radiates in so many directions . . . that there must be involved in it some sort of magic or wizardry." --Rain Taxi
"Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable. . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his storytelling gifts." --Timothy Peters, San Francisco Chronicle
"Auster is one of our most intellectually elegant writers. . . . Themes are hungry ghosts, Borges said. Fortunately, Auster's ghosts are insatiable." --Howard Norman, The Washington Post Book World
"One of America's greats . . . The writing is a tight as ever." --Jonathan Messinger, Time Out Chicago
Travels in the Scriptorium is Paul Auster's work of eerie minimalism - in the tradition of Samuel Beckett or Harold Pinter, it is nonetheless a profoundly contemporary work of mystery.
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- Publication date2007
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