Auster, Paul
de Man in the Dark
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- Tapa blanda
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- Ver descripción
- ISBN 10
- 0805088393
- ISBN 13
- 9780805088397
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San Francisco, California, United States
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New York. 2008. Harper & Row. Advance Reader's Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780805088397. 181 pages. paperback. . Signed by the Author. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.' . . So begins 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 at war not 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 desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death. Passionate and shocking, MAN IN THE DARK is a novel of our moment, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. inventory #2089 ISBN: 9780805088397.
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- Librería
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- Título
- Auster, Paul
- Autor
- Man in the Dark
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0805088393
- ISBN 13
- 9780805088397
- Editorial
- Henry Holt And Co.
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2008
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