The Music of Chance

Zusatztext Praise for Music of Chance: “A tour de force about freedom and imprisonment! motion and stasis! order and randomness. . .its story beautifully paced and shaped! its tone powerfully ominous.”  –The Wall Street Journal   “You won’t read much better writing anywhere on the lure of the open road – and it catches the reader in a surprisingly strong spell.  It’s further evidence that Auster is one of the few contemporary American novelists whose work is both original and interesting." – The Washington Post   “Entertaining! provocative! and resonant. . .Auster can write with the speed and skill of a self-assured pool player! sending one bizarre event ricocheting neatly and unexpectedly into the next.” – The New York Times Informationen zum Autor Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 , Sunset Park , The Book of Illusions , Moon Palace , and The New York Trilogy , among many other works. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honors include the Prix Médicis étranger for Leviathan , the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke , the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy , and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His novel 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. Paul Auster died in 2024. Klappentext An "exceptional" (Los Angeles Times) tale of fate, loyalty, responsibility, and the real meaning of freedom, from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award This "rich and dazzling" (Wall Street Journal) novel 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. Zusammenfassung An “exceptional” ( Los Angeles Times ) novel of fate, loyalty, responsibility, and the real meaning of freedom with “all the suspense and pace of a bestselling thriller” ( The New York Times ), from renowned author Paul Auster “A rich, dazzling performance . . . a tour de force about freedom and imprisonment, motion and stasis, order and randomness . . . its story beautifully paced and shaped, its tone powerfully ominous.”— The Wall Street Journal FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD   In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fifteenth-century stone. For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of “a life of freedom.” Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe meets Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe’s last funds, they enter a poker game against two rich eccentrics. But when their plans backfire, Jim and Jack are indentured by their elusive marks, who order them to erect 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.   In Paul Auster’s world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims, whe...

Product details

• Authors: Paul Auster
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.1991
• EAN: 9780140154078
• ISBN: 978-0-14-015407-8
• No. of pages: 217
• Dimensions: 112 mm x 182 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Penguin Pocketbooks
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature