TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM [Signed]

Auster, Paul

ISBN 10: 0805081453 / ISBN 13: 9780805081459

Published by Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2006

About this Item

Octavo, 143 pages. In Very Good condition with a Near Fine condition dust jacket. Spine is gray with black and white lettering. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has mild shelf wear to spine tail. Boards have mild shelving wear along head and tail edges and moderate denting along the tail and front and rear tail joints of spine. Signed flat by Paul Auster on title page. Shelved . 1384864. Special Collections.

Seller Inventory # 1384864

Bibliographic Details

• Title: TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM [Signed]
• Publisher: Henry Holt and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805081453
• ISBN 13: 9780805081459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

A man pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors--in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel

An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues.

Determining that he is locked in, the man--identified only as Mr. Blank--begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn't recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his cell--vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can't remember--and each brings frustrating hints of his identity and his past. All the while an overhead camera clicks and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someone is watching.

Both chilling and poignant, Travels in the Scriptorium is vintage Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor. And yet, as we discover during one day in the life of Mr. Blank, his world is not so different from our own.

About the Author

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of twelve previous novels, including The Brooklyn Follies, Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions, and Timbuktu. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn.