Travels in the Scriptorium
Language: English
Published by Faber & Faber, 2006
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Washburn Books, Pateley Bridge, United KingdomWashburn Books
AbeBooks seller since July 8, 2009
Condition: Used - Good
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London: Faber & Faber, 2006. Ex-Library. Good. Black Cloth Boards. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ingenious metaphysical story, featuring an elderly man called Mr Blank and involving a dark puzzle which involves both the reader and the writer, from the author of The Brooklyn Follies. The front end paper has been removed with the date stamp label. Library stamps to the title and half title pages. Some slanting to the spine and a few turned corners, otherwise good clean copy. Unclipped DJ in very good condition has a clear protective cover.
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- Title
- Travels in the Scriptorium
- Author
- Paul Auster
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- y Very Good
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0571232558
- ISBN 13
- 9780571232550
- Edition
- y First Edition, First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction
An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photgraphs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises.
Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise?
After the huge success of The Brooklyn Follies, Travels in the Scriptorium sees Auster return to more metaphysical territory. A dark puzzle, and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, it is an ingenious exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time.
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Washburn Books
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