The Music of Chance
by Paul Auster
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 057116157X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571161577
- Seller
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topanga, California, United States
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About This Item
British edition, preceded by U.S. "a haunting parable" by the author of The New York Trilogy. An immaculate copy in an imaginately illustrated dustjacket.
Synopsis
Finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, The Music of Chance follows Jim Nashe who, after squandering an unexpected inheritance, picks up a young gambler named Jack Pozzi hoping to con two millionaires. But when their plans backfire, Jim and Jack are indentured by their elusive marks and are forced to build a meaningless wall with bricks gathered from ruins of an Irish castle. Time passes, their debts mount, and anger builds as the two struggle to dig themselves out of their Kafkaesque serfdom. New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster ( The New York Trilogy) brings us back into his strange, shape-shifting world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims, where chance is a powerful yet unpredictable force.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Judith Hendra, Topanga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10013
- Title
- The Music of Chance
- Author
- Paul Auster
- Format/Binding
- Black boards, Gold lettering on spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 057116157X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571161577
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1991
- Pages
- 217
Terms of Sale
Judith Hendra, Topanga Books
About the Seller
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