In the Country of Last Things
by Paul Auster
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670814458
- ISBN 13
- 9780670814459
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Viking, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Imagine an American city in the near future, populated almost wholly by street dwellers, squatters in ruined buildings, scavengers for subsistence. Suicide clubs offer interesting ways to die, for a fee, but the rich have fled with their jewels, and those who are left survive on what little cash trade-in centers will give them for the day's pickings. This enthralling, dreamlike fable about a peculiarly recognizable society, now in the throes of entropy, focuses on the plight of a young woman, Anna Blume. Anna has memories of a gentler life, but comes to the city in a "charity ship" to hunt for her missing brother. She first finds shelter with a madman and his wife and later experiences a brief idyll with a writer, Samuel Farr.Together they live in the deteriorating splendor of the marbled public library. Promise is ultimately rekindled when the survivors consider taking to the road as magiciansan action implying that art and illusion can save. Auster, an accomplished stylist, creates a tone that deftly combines matter-of-factness and estrangement. The eerie quality is heightened by the device of a narrator who learns everything from Anna's journal. Light scratches to rear of dj. Otherwise a clean copy. Record # 385063
Synopsis
In the Country of Last Things is a dystopian epistolary novel written by American author Paul Auster and first published in 1987.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 385063
- Title
- In the Country of Last Things
- Author
- Paul Auster
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0670814458
- ISBN 13
- 9780670814459
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1987
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