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Original Title:	The Music of Chance
ISBN:	0571203035 (ISBN13: 9780571203031)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jim Nashe, Jack Pozzi
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1991)

The Music of Chance Paperback | Pages: 217 pages

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Title	:	The Music of Chance
Author	:	Paul Auster
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 217 pages
Published	:	March 20th 2001 by Faber & Faber Ltd (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. American

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In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fifteenth-century stone. For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pusuit of "a life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single turn of a card." In Paul Auster's world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims, where chance is a shifting and powerful force, there is redemption, nonetheless, in Nashe's resolute quest for justice and his capacity for love.

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My Paul Auster marathon (involving much sacrificed sleep) continues. This one opens "For one whole year, he did nothing but drive, traveling back and forth across America as he waited for the money to run out" which is characteristic; sometimes the characters are sitting in their apartments without moving for a year until the money runs out, sometimes they are driving aimlessly across the country, sometimes they are driving purposefully, blowing up small patriotic emblems as they go, but this

This book left with so much thinking to do and had so many philosophical metaphors that I ended up pushing it on my friends, fully thinking that I had their best interest in mind. But when I actually, thought about it I realized that what I really wanted was someone to discuss the book with. I wanted to talk about the characters and the metaphor and what it was all really trying to say. Yeah, this is a fabulous book. It deals with existentialism, freedom and captivity, chance and coincidence and

Another strange but absorbing read from one of America's finest, its a little on the short side but is instantly recognisable as Auster. Featuring oddball eccentric characters and elements of The Brothers Grimm and Samuel Beckett, its quite a straight forward story basically about a couple of guys losing a game of poker then building a wall as a way to clear the debt, its told in a way that makes it feel like a surreal fable. There is also a shocking ending I didn't see coming. For fans it's a

This is a super fun, smart, and ultimately powerful story about chance and money. The tone is both strange and familiar. Much of the dialogue is ripped right out of the experimental crime novels of the 1930s and 40s. The characters are fascinating creeps and lost lovers, and the setting is just bizarre enough to seem both very real and eerily prophetic. It felt timely - re: occupy movement - and timeless - re: chance. A fun roller coaster ride of a plot. Wow... talk about texture. This books is

What is a human fate? Is it a preset pattern decided by some divine providence from above? Or is it just a hellish roulette?It was one of those random, accidental encounters that seem to materialize out of thin air a twig that breaks off in the wind and suddenly lands at your feet. Had it occurred at any other moment, it is doubtful that Nashe would have opened his mouth. But because he had already given up, because he figured there was nothing to lose anymore, he saw the stranger as a

I enjoyed my first foray into Auster. I thought this novel was well constructed and delightfully disorientating. I also really enjoyed the absurdist undercurrent. I would have given it five stars were it not for the fact that I found some of the exchanges between Nashe and Pozzi a little grating.

The person who recommended this to me really, really loves it, so I suppose I went in with high expectations - but I didn't feel they were met. The writing is often excellent, and I'm sure Auster is saying many things on many subjects, but I did not enjoy it, and did not feel it hung together well as a story. I felt no connection to or sympathy for any of the characters and the tale seemed to simply meander. I freely admit that I don't have much interest in reading rambling prose about someone