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Oracle Night is a 2003 novel by American author Paul Auster. The novel is about a writer named Sidney Orr (a short, Americanized version of the Polish surname Orlovsky), who, after making a miraculous recovery from near fatal illness, buys a new notebook and starts writing a story about a man who completely changed his life when he realised how ...
But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. Oracle Night is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.
A novel that expands to fill volumes in the reader's mind, Oracle Night is a beautifully constructed meditation on time, love, storytelling and the imagination by...
In recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr, buying a notebook from a stationery shop, lives under the spell of the blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and...
Apr 28, 2009 · At once a meditation on the nature of time and a journey through the labyrinth of one man's imagination, Oracle Night is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's...
Apr 28, 2009 · by Paul Auster (Author) 4.0 371 ratings. See all formats and editions. Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook.
Dec 5, 2011 · Sidney Orr, the protagonist of Paul Auster’s new novel, Oracle Night, is a lost soul of a kind only possible in New York City: A novelist convalescing after a fall in a 14th Street subway...
