(New York): Viking, 1990. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Advance Review Copy with publisher's material laid in.

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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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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 551124
Title: The Music of Chance
Author: AUSTER, Paul
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0670835358
ISBN 13: 9780670835355
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: (New York)
Date Published: 1990
Keywords: AmerLit20thCent, AdvanceCopy

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