The Music of Chance - Softcover

Auster, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571165265 ISBN 13: 9780571165261

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1997

Synopsis

'By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him, he was past the point of wanting it to end . . .'

Following the death of his father and the inheritance of a large sum of money, Jim Nashe takes to the open road in pursuit of a 'life of freedom'. But as the money runs out he finds that his sense of disillusionment has only been compounded by his year on the road. However, having picked up Pozzi, a hitchhiking young gambler, he is drawn into a dangerous game of poker with Flower and Stone, two eccentric and reclusive millionaires. Unwittingly, Nashe finds himself in a situation in which, although the stakes have been raised, he will finally meet a challenge equal to his questions.

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Review:

Praise for Music of Chance:
A tour de force about freedom and imprisonment, motion and stasis, order and randomness. . .its story beautifully paced and shaped, its tone powerfully ominous.
The Wall Street Journal
You won t read much better writing anywhere on the lure of the open road and it catches the reader in a surprisingly strong spell. It s further evidence that Auster is one of the few contemporary American novelists whose work is both original and interesting."
The Washington Post
Entertaining, provocative, and resonant. . .Auster can write with the speed and skill of a self-assured pool player, sending one bizarre event ricocheting neatly and unexpectedly into the next.
The New York Times"

Praise for Music of Chance:
"A tour de force about freedom and imprisonment, motion and stasis, order and randomness. . .its story beautifully paced and shaped, its tone powerfully ominous."
-The Wall Street Journal
"You won't read much better writing anywhere on the lure of the open road - and it catches the reader in a surprisingly strong spell. It's further evidence that Auster is one of the few contemporary American novelists whose work is both original and interesting."
- The Washington Post
"Entertaining, provocative, and resonant. . .Auster can write with the speed and skill of a self-assured pool player, sending one bizarre event ricocheting neatly and unexpectedly into the next."
- The New York Times

Praise for Music of Chance:
-A tour de force about freedom and imprisonment, motion and stasis, order and randomness. . .its story beautifully paced and shaped, its tone powerfully ominous.-
-The Wall Street Journal
-You won't read much better writing anywhere on the lure of the open road - and it catches the reader in a surprisingly strong spell. It's further evidence that Auster is one of the few contemporary American novelists whose work is both original and interesting.-
- The Washington Post
-Entertaining, provocative, and resonant. . .Auster can write with the speed and skill of a self-assured pool player, sending one bizarre event ricocheting neatly and unexpectedly into the next.-
- The New York Times

Book Description:

The Music of Chance is Paul Auster's unsettling tale of chance, gambling and rootlessness, Kafkaesque and quintessentially American at the same time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0571165265
• ISBN 13: 9780571165261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224