Oracle Night

"It's a kind of seduction to dizzy the reader the way Auster does, layering, intermingling and cross-referencing the many stories....[B]ut the entire whirligig might lift right off the page altogether if it were not for a persistent melancholy so subtle it could almost be overlooked....[A] seemingly abstract panic...suffuses ORACLE NIGHT and, paradoxically, gives it its lifeblood. Without this anxiety, ORACLE NIGHT would be a cool game, but it succeeds as something much richer precisely because it acknowledges, constantly, the possibility of its own failure."Oracle Night, with ISBN 9780060589844 and ISBN 0060589841.