The Music of Chance - Hardcover

Auster, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670835358 ISBN 13: 9780670835355

Publisher: Viking, 1991

Synopsis

Pursuing a life of freedom, Jim Nashe meets gambler Jack Pozzi, who, with Nashe's funds, enters a poker game with two eccentric recluses, Flower and Stone, which leads to terror as Nashe and Pozzi find themselves imprisoned

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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: Viking
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0670835358
• ISBN 13: 9780670835355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224