In _The Music of Chance_, the story of Jim Nashe and Jack Pozzi,
Auster evokes the strong European influences of Samuel Beckett and
Franz Kafka in a brilliant and unsettling parable of loss and
gambling. In _Leviathan_, he makes perhaps his most direct attempt at
exploring the political reality of contemporary American life, through
the figure of Peter Aaron and his challenge to the complacency of
modern life. Finally, in _Mr Vertigo_ Auster crafts a cautionary tale
of greed and exploitation in the story of Walt, the irrepressible
orphan from the Mid-West, who learns the art of levitation under the
tutelage of Master Yehudi.
Highly varied, yet instantly recognisable as the work of the same
storyteller, these three novels form the next chapter in the ongoing
career of one of America's most enduring and fascinating writers.
'Paul Auster is one of those sages with confounding talent -
confounding for one because he's simply _that good _. . . He belongs
among Vonnegut, Roth, and DeLillo . . .' Claire Howorth
'Auster truly is a master of his art.' _Harper's Bazaar_
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ISBN
9780571317264
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
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Faber & Faber
Språk
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Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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