Music of Chance by Paul Auster

Music of Chance by Paul Auster

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Nashe comes into an inheritance and decides to pursue a life of freedom. He meets Pozzi, a gambler, who exerts a terrible fascination over him, and together they take a desperate gamble. By the author of "The New York Trilogy", "Moon Palace" and "The Invention of Solitude".

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Music of Chance by Paul Auster

Nashe has decided to pursue a 'life of freedom'. He meets Pozzi, an itinerant gambler, and together they go in for an extraordinary game of poker with Flower and Stone, two eccentric reclusives living on a vast estate in Pennsylvania. It is a gamble that Nashe and Pozzi will regret for the rest of their lives.The Music of Chance is a strange, haunting parable by a writer of extraordinary imagination and power.
Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in the United States in 1947. He graduated from Columbia University with an MA degree. In 1970 he worked as a merchant seaman on an Esso oil tanker. From 1971 to 1974 he lived in France, spending two years in Paris and one in Provence. After returning to New York in 1974, he began his writing career.Throughout the 1970s he wrote mainly poetry and essays which appeared in various magazines including the New York Review of Books. During the 1980s he concentrated on prose writing: a memoir and four novels were published.His screenplay Smoke and Blue in the Face was published in April 1996 to coincide with the release of the film, and in 1999 Faber published the screenplay Lulu on the Bridge. The Art of Hunger (a collection of essays, interviews and prose) and his Selected Poems were published in November 1998.He is the author of nine novels, including The New York Trilogy
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ISBN 13 9780571165261
ISBN 10 0571165265
Title Music of Chance
Author Paul Auster
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2000-09-18
Number of pages 224
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