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The Music of Chance.
by AUSTER, Paul
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 057116157X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571161577
- Seller
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Edmonds, Washington, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1991. Signed on the title page by the author. First British edition / First printing. Black paper covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Great photo of young Auster playing the piano on the front cover.
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
- Orpheus Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17781
- Title
- The Music of Chance.
- Author
- AUSTER, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Black paper covered boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First British edition / First printing.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 057116157X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571161577
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- 1991.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Orpheus Books
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Edmonds, Washington
About Orpheus Books
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