TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM [signed]

Auster, Paul, 1947-2024

ISBN 10: 0805081453 / ISBN 13: 9780805081459

Editore: Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2007

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Octavo, 145 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is grey with white and black print. Price unclipped: "$22.00". In clear plastic sleeve. Cover has vendor label on front panel. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column N. 1387736. FP New Rockville Stock. First edition, Advanced Reader's edition. Codice articolo 1387736

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Titolo: TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM [signed]

Casa editrice: Henry Holt and Company, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 2007

Legatura: Softcover

autografato: Autografato dall'autore

Edizione: prima edizione

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Riassunto:

A man pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors--in this fantastic, labyrinthine novel

An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues.

Determining that he is locked in, the man--identified only as Mr. Blank--begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn't recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his cell--vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can't remember--and each brings frustrating hints of his identity and his past. All the while an overhead camera clicks and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someone is watching.

Both chilling and poignant, Travels in the Scriptorium is vintage Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor. And yet, as we discover during one day in the life of Mr. Blank, his world is not so different from our own.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of twelve previous novels, including The Brooklyn Follies, Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions, and Timbuktu. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn.