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008			141021s2003 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2003051063
020			_a9780805073201
050	0	0	_aPS3551.U77 _bO73 2003
100	1		_aAuster, Paul _d, 1947-
245	1	0	_aOracle night _c/ Paul Auster
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: H. Holt _c, 2003
300			_a243 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aSeveral 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 puzzling events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. Why does his wife suddenly break down in tears in the backseat of a taxi just hours after Sidney begins writing in the notebook? Why does M. R. Chang, the owner of the stationery shop, precipitously close his business the next day? What are the connections between a 1938 Warsaw telephone directory and a lost novel in which the hero can predict the future? At what point does animosity explode into violence? To what degree is forgiveness the ultimate expression of love? Paul Auster's mesmerizing eleventh novel 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.
650			_aNovelists _v--Fiction
650		0	_aNotebooks _v--Fiction
650			_aAuthorship _v-- Fiction
651			_aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aPsychological fiction.
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