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Oracle Night - Paul Auster

 
Description: ISBN 0571216978 / Author: Paul Auster / Genre: Fiction / Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old ... more
Oracle Night - Paul Auster ... 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.

Newest Review: ... as being a writer’s writer, intellectually challenging always playing with the format of the conventional novel and writing ... more

 ... in a way that makes the style as important as the narrative. He seems to be appreciated most for his literary skills by those who share in the creative experience. Oracle Night doesn’t disappoint on this count. It is extremely well written and while the actual story is difficult to define, part psychological thriller, part drama, part ghost story it is nevertheless compelling. Auster gently introduces us into a familiar world but then subverts the people and events to produce an eerie atmosphere that becomes incre...more

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Crowned Review Oracle Night - Paul Auster: A Matter of Survival (1272 words)
by - written on 19/01/06 (Very useful, 705 readings)
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I’d come across Paul Auster’s work before but not many of his novels. I’d seen and enjoyed a couple of films ‘Smoke’ and ‘Blue in the Face’ which he had written the screen play for, in fact ‘Smoke’ was largely based on a novella that Auster had written called ‘Auggie Wren's Christmas Story’ and I ‘d promised myself that I would get around to reading some more of his books. ‘Oracle Nights’ tells the story of Sidney Orr a writer who is recently recovering from a life threatening illness. While still convalescing stuck at home with only reading and short yet taxing walks around the neighbourhood to pass the time he starts thinking about taking up writing again. ...  Read the complete review

 

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