Oracle Night   by Auster (268 results)

Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

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Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: very good. couverture souple, moyen format , très bon état. Coins abîmés. 4760269 - Oracle Night; Texte intégral en VO; Lire en anglais avec la traduction des mots-clés, Auster, Paul, Harrap'S, 2004.

Condition: Good. 1 Edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Condition: (see pics.) The book has been read and does not look new, but is still in a very good, clean and tight condition. There is a crease to the front cover, and a crease to the spine. Free from other markings. Synopsis: 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 ). 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. 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. 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.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Taschenbuch. Kartoniert. Condition: Sehr gut. Taschenbucherstausgabe. 285 (3) Seiten. 19 cm. Umschlaggestaltung: any.way, Cathrin Günther. Sehr guter Zustand. Der Schriftsteller Sidney Orr ist nach einem Unfall auf dem Weg der Genesung. Als er ein wundervolles blaues Notizbuch kauft, verschwindet seine Schreibhemmung. Die Geschichten fliegen ihm nur so zu. Eine gebiert die andere, bis ihm dämmert: Sie führen immer häufiger in ausweglose Situationen. Wie sein Leben. Seine Frau verschließt sich vor ihm und hütet ein Geheimnis. Was ist da im Spiel Zufall? Magie? Seit seiner wundervollen New York-Trilogie denkt der US-amerikanische Erfolgsautor Paul Auster gar nicht daran, sich erzähltechnisch zu verändern. Warum sollte er auch? Zwar ähnelt jeder Plot mit seinen Vexierspielen, Fallstricken, Spiegelfechtereien, Doppelbödigkeiten und gelenkten Zufälle irgendwie dem anderen. Aber bereits in den ersten Romanen wie Stadt aus Glas oder Mond über Manhattan hat Auster eine Sprache und Struktur gefunden, die wahrscheinlich bis zum Sankt-Nimmerleins-Tag funktionieren wird. Und das ist durchaus als Kompliment gemeint. Auch Nacht des Orakels erinnert an frühere Bücher Austers, vor allem an das letzte, Das Buch der Illusionen, der verschachtelte Roman im Roman um einen Stummfilmstar, seinen Biografen und die Vernichtung eines Lebenswerks. Erzählt wird die Geschichte des 35-jährigen Schriftstellers Sidney Orr aus New York, der seine Schreibhemmung überwindet, als ihm ein merkwürdiger Chinese namens M.R. Chang in einem himmlischen Schreibwarenladen namens Paper Palace ein blaues Portugalbuch verkauft, und dafür, in einer Art Teufelspakt, andere Probleme an den Hals bekommt. Aber eigentlich erzählt Auster einmal mehr die Geschichte des Schreibens und seiner Konstruktionen selbst. Wieder ist die Methode durchschaubar. Und trotzdem muss man sich wieder über seine narrative Raffinesse und sprachliche Bravour mehr als wundern und sich fragen: Mr. Auster, wie haben Sie das gemacht? Als postmoderner Autor hat Auster sich durch die Literatur hindurchgefressen wie kein Zweiter. So weiß er, dass mit dem ersten Satz alles steht und fällt. "Ich war lange Zeit krank gewesen", lautet dieser Satz. Besser hat auch Goethe seinen Werther nicht starten lassen, oder Hermann Melville seinen Moby Dick -- ein Buch zudem, dem Auster nicht nur den Hang zur ausufernden Fußnote verdankt. Genau so müssen gute Romane beginnen, dann kann kaum mehr etwas schief gehen. Und so ist es auch in Nacht des Orakels, über fast 300 Seiten, bis zum Schluss. Nacht des Orakels ist ein sprachlicher Sog. Man muss kein Prophet sein, um zu wissen, dass Auster auch damit wieder in den Bestseller-Listen landen wird. Und das ganz zu Recht. --Thomas Köster. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 280.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 243 pages. Text tanned. 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 Fra ncisco Chronicle ).Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, n.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No d/w. 207pp; Very slight toning to edges else a very bright copy; Size: 12mo. Book.

Audio Book (Cassette). Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex library audio book; usual stamps/markings. Unabridged & narrated by Paul Auster. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 39E*.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new book. First printing of the first edition with full number line. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding.

Condition: FINE. First printing. His eleventh novel. Covering a period of just 9 days, in Brooklyn in 1982, this is a meditation on the nature of time - but also a book which can be described as 'reading like an old-fashioned ghost story.' 243 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

21 x 14, Picador Books, 2004. Softcover, 243 pages. In perfect condition, as good as new. Signed by the last owner. Texto en inglés. Inglés. Narrativa. ENVIO POR CONTRAREEMBOLSO LLEVA UN CARGO ADICIONAL DE 3 EUROS.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Holt, 2003. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A clean, tight copy. Jacket is designed to look distressed, but this is actually fine, without flaws. Comes with mylar dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. Smoke-free shop. Fiction-A.

Condition: Buone. inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, segni d'uso Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, bruniture.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First UK edition, First printing. Signed by the author, without inscription. Very Good book, in a near fine DW; some indentations to rear boards otherwise a fine copy. "This book is an intriguing blend of eerie suspense and touching commentary on falling in love.". Signed.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Roman (illustrator). La fotografía que aparece en la pantalla puede ser distinta a la real. Todos nuestros libros son de segunda mano.

[0-8050-7320-5] 2003, 1st US Edition. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 243pp. 8vo. Auster's 11th novel, a meditation on time and its nature and the labyrinth of imagination. First US edition. Fine / fine copy. Jacket in loose, protective mylar sleeve.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. G422619. Faber & Faber - 243pp Libro en inglés. (L) PAM.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Complete number line. Signed by Auster on half-title page. Clean and solid. ; 8vo; 243 pages; Signed by Paul Auster.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2003. Auster's eleventh novel, following the success of "The Book of Illusions." This is a Fine copy of the First Edition (stated). Gray paper-covered boards with a black cloth spine with silver lettering. Clean text; 243 pages. The dustjacket is also Fine and unclipped; in an archival plastic protector. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, 243 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is blue with blue print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: "$23.00". Boards quarter bound with black paper to spine and grey paper to boards. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N. 1387693. FP New Rockville Stock.

EA, 243 S., OPbd. m. OU., gut erhalten Sprache: Englisch. Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien.

Condition: FINE. First printing. His eleventh novel. Covering a period of just 9 days, in Brooklyn in 1982, this is a meditation on the nature of time - but also a book which can be described as 'reading like an old-fashioned ghost story.' SIGNED on the title page. 243 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

paperback. Condition: fine copy. Advance Reader's Edition. trade pbk, blue-denim design, 243 pgs; 'First Edition 2004' w/ complete # line on copyright page; pub info for hardcover (Dec 2003, 256 pgs) on back cover. designed by Victoria Hartman.