Oracle Night (Signed)

Auster, Paul

ISBN 10: 0571216986 / ISBN 13: 9780571216987

Published by Faber and Faber, 2004

About this Item

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.".

Seller Inventory # 00848

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Oracle Night (Signed)
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571216986
• ISBN 13: 9780571216987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed

About this title

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.

About the Author

Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.