{"product_id":"oracle-night","title":"Oracle Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuster''s radical modern ghost story from the author of contemporary classic \u003ci\u003eThe New York Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e: ''a literary voice for the ages'' (\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeveral months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf \u003ci\u003eThe New York Trilogy \u003c\/i\u003ewas Paul Auster''s detective story, his mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. \u003ci\u003eOracle Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster''s reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''His old-fashioned art of creating suspense . . . which rivals M. R. James or Conan Doyle. In fact, \u003ci\u003eOracle Night \u003c\/i\u003eis best read as a post-modern ghost story.'' The \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318889587070,"sku":"NW9780571276622","price":9.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780571276622.jpg?v=1778653890","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/oracle-night","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}