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Oracle Night

By Paul Auster
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Oracle Night by Paul Auster is a fascinating exploration of creativity and fate. The story follows novelist Sidney Orr as he purchases a mysterious blue notebook, which seems to influence both his writing and reality. Set in Brooklyn, Orr navigates a blend of fiction and real events, grappling with themes of chance and the unpredictability of life.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate complex narratives exploring the interplay between reality and fiction. With its intertwining stories and elements of mystery and introspection, it offers a contemplative journey into the power of storytelling and the unpredictability of life. If layered plots and philosophical themes intrigue you, this tale will likely captivate your imagination.

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Oracle Night

The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside-down in this compulsively readable novel.

Auster's radical modern ghost story from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian)

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Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days, Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.

Oracle Night is Paul Auster's mesmerising eleventh novel and reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book—only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life.

Oracle Night is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest and most original writers at work in America today.

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Oracle Night has been praised for its hypnotic narrative voice and compulsive readability, offering a complex and unsettling experience. Reviewers highlight its intricate structure, likening it to a babushka doll of stories and a literary Rubik's Cube. Auster's work is noted for blending urban mysticism with high-modernist elements, showcasing him as a masterful fabulist and a triumph of inventive storytelling.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571276622

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 June 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 147g

Pages: 224

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About the Author

Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages.

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