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"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."Auster, Paul is the author of 'Oracle Night' with ISBN 9780805073201 and ISBN 0805073205.
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