ORACLE NIGHT
Paul Auster, . . Holt, $23 (256pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-7320-1
One morning in September 1982, a struggling novelist recovering from a near-fatal illness purchases, on impulse, a blue notebook from a new store in his Brooklyn neighborhood. So begins Auster's artful, ingenious 12th novel, which is both a darkly suspenseful domestic drama and a moving meditation on chance and loss. Reflecting on a past conversation and armed with his new notebook, Sidney Orr is compelled to write about a man who walks away from his comfortable, staid life after a brush with death—a contemporary retelling of the Flitcraft episode in Dashiell Hammett's
Reviewed on: 11/10/2003
Genre: Fiction
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