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Un'eredità imprevista determina una svolta nella vita di Jim Nashe, il protagonista della "Musica del caso". Jim molla il lavoro, lascia sua figlia e, alla guida di una fiammante Saab 900, vagabonda per un anno intero avanti e indietro attraverso l'America. Sempre casualmente incontra Jack Pozzi, un giovanissimo giocatore d'azzardo, reduce da una rocambolesca avventura notturna. Con ciò che resta dell'eredità di Nashe i due decidono di portare...

In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of 15th-century stone. For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of "a life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich ec...

...listening to 4 3 2 1 in audio is worth the commitment, thanks to the author's easy-on-the-ears baritone" - Newsday This program is narrated by-and includes a bonus interview with-the author. Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel-a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece.Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospi...

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Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore. Through Tom and his charismatic boss, Harry, Nathan's world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances, which leads him to a reckoning with his past.

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From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A novel - his debut work of fiction, the first volume in his acclaimed "New York Trilogy" series of novelsNominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, City of Glass inaugurates the intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that the Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye...It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his ow...

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

From the bestselling author of "Oracle Night" and "The Book of Illusions, " comes an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man's accidental redemption.

Nel 1967, Adam Walker ha vent'anni e studia a New York, la sua unica aspirazione è diventare poeta. Durante una festa, conosce l'enigmatico e inquietante professore parigino Rudolf Born e la sua seducente fidanzata, Margot. Tra loro si instaura immediatamente un legame fatto di sottintesi, di cose dette e non dette: Rudolf sembra aver preso in simpatia il giovane e gli offre di ideare e curare una rivista letteraria che intende finanziare. Ada...

In this rich and emotionally charged work, a man's obsession with a silent film star sends him on a journey into a shadowy world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love.

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.

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En una entrevista realizada en 1987 por el crítico norteamericano Joseph Mallia, Paul Auster afirmaba: "Toda mi obra es una unidad y el cambio a la prosa fue el último paso en una lenta evolución natural". Escrita a lo largo de la década de los setenta, la obra poética de Paul Auster inaugura y desarrolla el universo lingüístico y temático que conforma su peculiar obra novelística. De una madurez y una fuerza expresiva sorprendentes, estos poe...

August Brill ha sufrido un accidente de coche, y se estß recuperando en casa de su hija, en Vermont. No puede dormir e inventa historias en la oscuridad.

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Descripcion:21x14 cms. Encuadernacion:Rustica. Coleccion:Compactos anagrama, 479.Un hombre mayor está encerrado en una habitación. No recuerda quién es ni qué está haciendo allí. Lo que leemos es el informe de los movimientos de este amnésico personaje al que llaman Mr. Blank y de las sucesivas visitas que irá recibiendo a lo largo del día. Una serie de enigmáticos personajes relacionados con su pasado que pretenden ajustar cuentas con él. ¿Qu...

CONTEMPORARY NOVEL. LIKE A POLICIAL, THE LIFE OF BENJAMIN SACHS

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of 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. A novel th...