Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster Paperback Book

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Rent Travels in the Scriptorium

Author: Paul Auster

Narrator: Dick Hill

Format: Unabridged-MP3, Paperback, Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3

Publisher: Ingram Pub Services

Published: Feb 2007

Genre: Fiction - Historical - General

Retail Price: $19.99

Discs: 1

Synopsis

* Mp3 CD Format *. A man pieces together clues to his past-and the identity of his captors-in this fantastic, labyrinthine novelAn old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues.Determining that he is locked in, the man-identified only as Mr. Blank-begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn't recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his cell-vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can't remember-and each brings frustrating hints of his identity and his past. All the while an overhead camera clicks and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someon

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BookLender review by Ruth on 2010-10-26 18:31:59

Like several before me I found this book a bit disappointing. As it is my first book by Paul Auster I have little to compare it to. At times it was interesting but eventually it just becomes tiresome.