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999			_c15677 _d15676
003			OSt
005			20231114110009.0
008			220513s2009 nyu 000 1 eng d
020			_a9780312356583
040			_cQCPL _erda
082			_aFic
100	1		_aAuster, Paul _eauthor
245	1	0	_aMan in the dark _c/ Paul Auster
264		1	_aNew York : _bPicador, _c2009
300			_a148 pages
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
520			_a"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."--From publisher description.
650			_aAutobiographical fiction, American
650			_aAlternative histories (Fiction), American
655		7	_2lcgft _aPolitical fiction _910555
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
690			_aFiction