Auster, Paul
Summary: It is a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of the night, even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys, in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audiobook 2008
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Summary: 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2008