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Man in the Dark
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ISBN10: 0312428510
ISBN13: 9780312428518
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Apr 28 2009
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780312428518
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Apr 28 2009
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter. --Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books
From Paul Auster, a literary original (Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget: his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
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