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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Unable to summarize the book, I will simply say that its transitions from the elderly narrator to the younger narrator are seamless, culminating in the end in a beautiful ending. I thought this novel was interesting, albeit a little strange. (  )Grabbag | Jul 1, 2009 |   Bel romanzo (  )zinf | Jun 15, 2009 | Paul Auster's Man in the Dark turned out to be quite an interesting read with an unexpected ending. I enjoyed clear style and clever story telling. This was my first Auster novel and I am actually looking forward to reading more. (  )bojanfurst | May 2, 2009 | This is my first foray into the world of Paul Auster, and I must say it was a pleasant foray as foray’s go. Man in the Dark was written in that seemingly new wave popular “no quotation” style that takes a minute to get used to but then becomes somewhat pleasing to the eye as you go. I don’t know if there is a name for this style, because I am but a simpleton; must be the reason I am dwelling on the style of the book rather than its substance. Man in the dark is an interesting story within a story within a story. Auster has a wonderful talent for building strong and believable characters. He has mastered the show; don’t tell technique of character development and action. This book of a mere 180 pages, is chalk full of interesting little stories; maybe tidbits is a better descriptor about seemingly ordinary people. The main character is a man in his early seventies who is living with his daughter and granddaughter after a car accident has left him crippled. Each night he finds sleep as a mere desire rather than an actuality, so to pass the time he tells himself stories; so real and some fictional. It is a kind of one act, one set play where the main character examines his life and the lives of those who have touched him most deeply; especially his family. This is an excellent story; I can’t wait to read more of this author. ( )Ti99er | Apr 8, 2009 | Slightly looser than the typical Auster. The metafictional strand of the dystopic US Civil War story was not fully-developed, I was half expecting an Auster twist whereby the manin character's invented characters came to kill him. That didn't happen though the novel was no weaker for that. It was more an exploration of age and family - regrests and consolations - and so perhaps shows a more subtle shift in Auster's work. ( )mccabio | Mar 15, 2009 | 0.059 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0805088393, Hardcover)A new novel with a dark political twist from “one of America’s greats.”* Man in the Dark is 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 not at war 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. *Time Out (Chicago) (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:09 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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