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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.
Henry Holt
August 2008
On Sale: August 19, 2008
192 pages
ISBN: 0805088393
EAN: 9780805088397
Hardcover
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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.
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