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The book of illusions : a novel

Title
The book of illusions : a novel / Paul Auster.
Author
Auster, Paul, 1947-
Publication
New York : Picador : Henry Holt and Co., 2003, c2002.

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Description
321 p.; 22 cm.
Summary
Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, but his films have begun to reappear anonymously in film archives around the world. Zimmer embarks on a journey to study the films, and thus begins a story within a mystery within a fable.
Subject
  • Aircraft accident victims' families > Fiction
  • Absence and presumption of death > Fiction
  • Missing persons > Fiction
  • Silent films > Fiction
  • Biographers > Fiction
  • Comedians > Fiction
  • Widowers > Fiction
Genre/Form
Fiction.
ISBN
  • 0312421818 (pbk.)
  • 9780312421816 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • ocm52640380
  • SCSB-1616722
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library