Oracle Night

<p> <b>Auster's radical modern ghost story from the author of contemporary classic <i>The New York Trilogy</i>: 'a literary voice for the ages' ( <i>Guardian</i>) </b> <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> If <i>The New York Trilogy </i>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. <i>Oracle Night</i> is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today. <br> <br> 'His old-fashioned art of creating suspense . . . which rivals M. R. James or Conan Doyle. In fact, <i>Oracle Night </i>is best read as a post-modern ghost story.' The <i>Guardian</i> </p>