Oracle Night
by Paul Auster
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In this novel-with-footnotes, the narrator, Sidney Orr, is writing a work based on one of Dashiell Hammett's noir stories. Orr alternates between the tale he is writing and his real life, which becomes increasingly mysterious and which, in some ways, begins to mirror other well-known works of literature. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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Publisher Thorndike Press |
Date 2004 |
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Publisher Picador USA |
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"It's a kind of seduction to dizzy the reader the way Auster does, layering, intermingling and cross-referencing the many stories....[B]ut the entire whirligig might lift right off the page altogether if it were not for a persistent melancholy so subtle it could almost be overlooked....[A] seemingly abstract panic...suffuses ORACLE NIGHT and, paradoxically, gives it its lifeblood. Without this anxiety, ORACLE NIGHT would be a cool game, but it succeeds as something much richer precisely because it acknowledges, constantly, the possibility of its own failure."
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