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| Title | : | The Music of Chance |
| Author | : | Paul Auster |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 217 pages |
| Published | : | March 20th 2001 by Faber & Faber Ltd (first published 1990) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. American |
Paul Auster
Paperback | Pages: 217 pages Rating: 3.91 | 9513 Users | 484 Reviews
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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 pusuit of "a life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single turn of a card." In Paul Auster's world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims, where chance is a shifting and powerful force, there is redemption, nonetheless, in Nashe's resolute quest for justice and his capacity for love.
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| Original Title: | The Music of Chance |
| ISBN: | 0571203035 (ISBN13: 9780571203031) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jim Nashe, Jack Pozzi |
| Literary Awards: | PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1991) |
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Ratings: 3.91 From 9513 Users | 484 ReviewsCrit Regarding Books The Music of Chance
Pennsylvania in the 80's. 33-y/o Jim Nashe is a bum newly divorced dad who inherited almost US$200,000 from his dead dad who he did not see for almost 30 years. He resigned from his work as a fireman, bought an expensive Saab (car), threw a couple of parties, left his 4-y/o daughter Juliette to his sister Donna and drove around aimlessly across the USA. He likes music (he plays the piano) so he has lots of cassette tapes (this is in the 80s) in the car. The long drives while the music is on seemThis book is essentially about some men building a wall. Admittedly it is portrayed as the most sinister episode of landscape gardening that there ever was, but nonetheless it is still, inherently about two men building a wall. How do you make landscape gardening sinister? Here is the recipe:Take one sticky situation.Add two desperate chancersMix in two mendacious and sinister old men (soft on the outside but hard as nails on the inside for the desired texture)Sprinkle on some moneyShake things
[4.5] The Music of Chance ticks with impending doom. Or maybe not. I kept hoping for relief. Auster makes the routine act of building a stone wall (for months) freighted with meaning and suspense. I have so many questions! I am just floored by this book. Brilliant and unnerving.
This is a super fun, smart, and ultimately powerful story about chance and money. The tone is both strange and familiar. Much of the dialogue is ripped right out of the experimental crime novels of the 1930s and 40s. The characters are fascinating creeps and lost lovers, and the setting is just bizarre enough to seem both very real and eerily prophetic. It felt timely - re: occupy movement - and timeless - re: chance. A fun roller coaster ride of a plot. Wow... talk about texture. This books is
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By far the best book I have read of Auster. The characters are brought deeper and deeper into a prison made up of their own careless acts of chance.The ending reminded me of Kafka's "The Trial" - just as one sees light at the end of the tunnel, a random event changes everything - just like the game of poker in the begining
My Paul Auster marathon (involving much sacrificed sleep) continues. This one opens "For one whole year, he did nothing but drive, traveling back and forth across America as he waited for the money to run out" which is characteristic; sometimes the characters are sitting in their apartments without moving for a year until the money runs out, sometimes they are driving aimlessly across the country, sometimes they are driving purposefully, blowing up small patriotic emblems as they go, but this
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