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The book of illusions : a novel / Paul Auster.
LIBRA PS3551.U77 B66 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auster, Paul, 1947-2024.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aircraft accident victims' families--Fiction.
- Aircraft accident victims' families.
- Absence and presumption of death--Fiction.
- Absence and presumption of death.
- Silent films.
- Missing persons--Fiction.
- Missing persons.
- Silent films--Fiction.
- Biographers--Fiction.
- Biographers.
- Comedians--Fiction.
- Comedians.
- Widowers--Fiction.
- Widowers.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 321 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Picador edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Picador : Henry Holt and Co., 2003.
- Summary:
- Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, but his films have begun to reappear anonymously in film archives around the world. Zimmer embarks on a journey to study the films, and thus begins a story within a mystery within a fable.
- ISBN:
- 0312421818
- 9780312421816
- OCLC:
- 52640380
- Online:
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