_The Book of Illusions_, written with breath-taking urgency and
precision, plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and
the tragic, the real and the imagined, and the violent and the tender
dissolve into one another.
One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star
takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and
unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane
crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in
grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost
film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh . . .
Mann was a comic genius, in trademark white suit and fluttering black
moustache. But one morning in 1929 he walked out of his house and was
never heard from again. Zimmer's obsession with Mann drives him to
publish a study of his work; whereupon he receives a letter postmarked
New Mexico, supposedly written by Mann's wife, and inviting him to
visit the great Mann himself. Can Hector Mann be alive? Zimmer cannot
decide - until a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the
decision for him, changing his life forever.
'A nearly flawless work . . . Auster will be remembered as one of the
great writers of our time.' _San Francisco Chronicle_
'Auster's elegant, finely calibrated _The Book of Illusions _is a
haunting feat of intellectual gamesmanship.' _TheNew York Times_
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ISBN
9780571246151
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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