Oracle Night
Oracle Night
Author: Paul Auster
Desc: 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.