Man in the Dark (Signed First Edition)

Auster, Paul

ISBN 10: 0805088393 / ISBN 13: 9780805088397

Published by Henry Holt & Company, New York, 2008

About this Item

New York, Holt, 2008. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Near Fine in a fine jacket. A tight clean copy with a slight bruise to page on the side edge. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($23.00). SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only; no inscriptions). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. A novel.

Seller Inventory # Fiction-Auster-A

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Man in the Dark (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805088393
• ISBN 13: 9780805088397
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

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.