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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) |
Paul Auster
Paperback | Pages: 217 pages Rating: 3.91 | 9513 Users | 484 Reviews
List Appertaining To Books The Music of Chance
| Title | : | The Music of Chance |
| Author | : | Paul Auster |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 217 pages |
| Published | : | March 20th 2001 by Faber & Faber Ltd (first published 1990) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literature. American |
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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.Rating Appertaining To Books The Music of Chance
Ratings: 3.91 From 9513 Users | 484 ReviewsAssessment Appertaining To Books The Music of Chance
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 isA road trip, some high stakes poker, and indentured servitude. Sure, why not?The Music of Chance moves along at a rapid clip. Characters speak back and forth at each other like that one scene in Reservoir Dogs, and the actual narration feels kind of like some old Texan going on and on, missing out some of the details but hitting the important notes. It's an odd style but it's really quite engaging, and I only found myself stopping due to other personal obligations.Reading some of the responses
A macabre fable about fate and chance and randomness and destiny.Plenty of philosophical reference and dilemmas sprinkled throughout the tale.Throw in some Greek mythology also.Lots of the classical Auster themes and characterisations are here.Enjoyed the reference to Rousseaus target practice in a forest,I can relate to that.Not for everybody but I really enjoyed it.Discovered afterwards that it was made into a movie.Apart from his most recent novel I think I have now completed the entire
A friend spoke to me once of "concretizing the metaphor" when trying to write evocative and symbolically pregnant prose. Auster manages to do that very effectively in almost all of his works, and The Music of Chance is no exception. No one reading this work could help but be struck by the three cases of concrete metaphor on display here. The first is Stone's City of the World. The second is Flower's museum of unwanted objects, but the third and most compelling is surely The Wall. William
I read this many years ago. The characters in this book have incredible staying power. Sure this is about a wall. It's about the wall as a symbol for rebuilding a life both the interior and exterior life.Paul Auster is an amazingly talented writer. If we develop a way to lengthen the human life span I hope we will give it to this author so he can write many more books. This work takes on a life of it's own as a firefly sends a beacon of light this work sends a beacon of a lasting almost
Jim Nashe is a frivolous Boston fireman who needs music as a life crutch. His wife abandons him just before his father dies, leaving him money that he squanders aimlessly while driving around America. Near desperation, he meets a bitter young itinerant gambler, Jack ("Jackpot") Pozzi, who lures him into a losing poker game with two shady recluses, Flower and Stone, on their Pennsylvania estate. Nashe and Pozzi must retire their debt by building a stone wall on the premises: what this Herculean
[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.
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