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Man in the Dark is Paul Auster’s brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us.



Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget—his wife’s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter’s boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill’s story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus’s death.



Passionate and shocking, Man in the Dark is a novel of our moment, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.



*Time Out (Chicago)

</div></div>]]> 2007 5 4 false Tue Aug 19 20:36:54 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 15:53:38 -0700 2008 come unstuck in time awakened in a hole in a battlefield in an alternate America. He's now been chosen as the assassin (after a fashion) of the man in the high castle responsible for imagining this war-torn America into existence. Along the way he meets a feisty waitress (blo...more...]]> 26946117 630618 3136288 0571240763 9780571240760 182 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3136288.Man_in_the_Dark 3.42 901 2007 5 4 false Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 07:28:21 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 07:28:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 50786098 520753 3136288 0571240763 9780571240760 182 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3136288.Man_in_the_Dark 3.42 901 2007 3 4 false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 02:43:06 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 05:27:23 -0700 2009
I've never had a real issue with insomnia. Sure, there are those tension filled days that carry over and transmute into a jaw clenching, sheet wrass...more...]]> 33540922 1672 4716189 8433974858 9788433974853 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4716189.Un_hombre_en_la_oscuridad 3.42 901 2007 4 4 false Mon Sep 22 12:55:49 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 13:00:05 -0700 2008 Novela más que redonda, de facilísima lectura, dejando caer con ligeras sutilezas su posicionamiento frente a grandes temas (y sin querer hacer apostolado laico, lo que es de agradecer), reflexionando sobre el acto de la creación literaria como escape ...more...]]> 20919074 39709 3136288 0571240763 9780571240760 182 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3136288.Man_in_the_Dark 3.42 901 2007 2 4 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 15:27:34 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 15:27:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 33592165 880310 4716189 8433974858 9788433974853 4 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4716189.Un_hombre_en_la_oscuridad 3.42 901 2007 4 2 false Thu Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 23 02:32:53 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 11:23:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 33337366 10378 3136288 0571240763 9780571240760 182 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3136288.Man_in_the_Dark 3.42 901 2007 0 2 false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 06:13:15 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 06:15:33 -0700 2008 Tom LeClair nailed my sense of the book, as far as I'd gotten in it:

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With the twist you can expect from Auster, there is the surreal plotline of a ch...more...]]> 50683629 1027275 3136288 0571240763 9780571240760 182 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3136288.Man_in_the_Dark 3.42 901 2007 3 0 false Fri Mar 27 22:34:49 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 22:47:54 -0700 2009 more...]]> 45463592 1008236 3078560 0805088393 9780805088397 53 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3078560.Man_in_the_Dark_A_Novel 3.42 901 A new novel with a dark political twist from “one of America’s greats.”*



Man in the Dark is Paul Auster’s brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us.



Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget—his wife’s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter’s boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill’s story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus’s death.



Passionate and shocking, Man in the Dark is a novel of our moment, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.



*Time Out (Chicago)

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Such a Fearful Thing to Love What Death Can Touch: Paul Auster Waxes Mortal

Going back as far as his first novel City of Glass, the New York-based author Paul Auster has been known for his sublime intellectual play, his text-within-a...more...]]> 40728679 1024459 3136288 0571240763 9780571240760 182 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3136288.Man_in_the_Dark 3.42 901 2007 4 0 false Sat Dec 20 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 20:41:40 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 20:53:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5979488