Títol: The book of illusions
Registre: 2611
Autor: Auster, Paul
Editorial: Faber and Faber
Idioma: Anglès
Snopsis:
One man's obsession with
the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a
shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and
young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking
hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a
lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh...Mann was
a comic genius, in trademark white suit and fluttering black moustache.
But one morning in 1929 he
walked out of his house and was never heard from again. Zimmer's obsession with
Mann drives him to publish a study of his work; whereupon he receives a letter
postmarked New Mexico, supposedly written by Mann's wife, and inviting him to
visit the great Mann himself.
Can Hector Mann be alive?
Zimmer cannot decide - until a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes
the decision for him, changing his life forever. Written with breath-taking
urgency and precision, this stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe
in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, the violent and
the tender dissolve into one another.
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