Name: Oracle Night
Rating: 4 (15 reviews)
ISBN: 9780312423667

Paul Auster

Recovering from a near-fatal illness, Sidney Orr, a thirty-four-year-old novelist, purchases a mysterious blue notebook from a Brooklyn stationery shop and is drawn into a bizarre world of eerie premonitions and baffling events.

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Oracle Night

Recovering from a near-fatal illness, Sidyney Orr, a thirty-four-year-old novelist, purchases a mysterious blue notebook from a Brooklyn stationery shop and is drawn into a bizarre world of eerie premonitions and baffling events that threaten to destroy his marriage and faith in reality. 100,000 first printing.

it’s always interesting when writers choose other writers to be central characters within a novel. auster utilized the work of sid and john to explore roughly 5 (or so) stories without allowing them to muddy the primary plot. oracle night could’ve easily been a frame to hold a collection of short stories, but I do respect auster’s willingness to share ideas that he felt were worth sharing without the need to fully flesh them out. he did so in a fun and relevant way and i appreciate that each proposed story was actually significant to the plot. i liked it! it was overall a pretty fun reading experience

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Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld

Oracle Night is a compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time.' (San Francisco Chronicle). Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in 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. If The New York Trilogy was Paul Auster's detective story, his mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. Oracle Night is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today. 'His old-fashioned art of creating suspense . . . which rivals M. R. James or Conan Doyle. In fact, Oracle Night is best read as a post-modern ghost story.' The Guardian

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