The Music of Chance
by Auster, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670835358
- ISBN 13
- 9780670835355
- Seller
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Pittsford, New York, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Abacus Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BOOKS025005I
- Title
- The Music of Chance
- Author
- Auster, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in fine dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0670835358
- ISBN 13
- 9780670835355
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
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