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The
2005 Award
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Oracle
Night
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old
novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section
of 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 puzzling events that threaten to
destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.
Why does his wife suddenly break down in tears in the backseat of a taxi just hours after Sidney begins writing in the notebook? Why does M. R. Chang, the owner of the stationery shop, precipitously close his business the next day? What are the connections between a 1938 Warsaw telephone directory and a lost novel in which the hero can predict the future? At what point does animosity explode into violence? To what degree is forgiveness the ultimate expression of love? 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 at once a meditation on the nature of time and a journey through the labyrinth of one man's imagination. |
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Paul Auster's most recent novels, The Book of Illusions and Timbuctu were national bestsellers, as was I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
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