Man in the Dark

Auster, Paul

ISBN 10: 0805088393 / ISBN 13: 9780805088397

Published by Henry Holt & Co, 2008

About this Item

As New copy in like dustwrapper. First printing with full number line. Flat signed by the author on title page. 180 pages. Man in the Dark" is a novel of our moment, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Man in the Dark
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805088393
• ISBN 13: 9780805088397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author

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Synopsis

A new novel with a dark political twist from one of America s greats. *Man in the Dark is Paul Auster s brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us.Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget his wife s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter s boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill s story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperatel

About the Author

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Travels in the Scriptorium, The Brooklyn Follies, and Oracle Night. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited, was also a national bestseller. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.