June 01, 2005
Oracle Night
Paul Auster has the talent to wed ordinary, fantastic, impossible, and tragic events into the fabric of a story. He demonstrates this to varying degrees in a number of his books, some more fantastic and impossible than others. Oracle Night has fantastic elements but also contains, for me, a good measure of ordinary and believable events and scenarios. As you become more involved with the protagonist and are hoping for his success and triumph, Auster adds tragic and disturbing events. Another example of his mastery of story telling and writing.
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