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The Music of Chance

By Paul Auster

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Group
Year
1991
ISBN
1101562277
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
339 kB (346671 bytes)
Pages
224\0
Topic
Literature
Time added
2014-06-03 10:04:26

Description

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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