Paul Auster
1990
Around 220 pages
I love novels that have such a strange central concept. You can tell one weird idea came to the author, and then they just ran with it.
Jim Nashe is a fireman with a two-year-old daughter and wife who has just left him. After coming into some family money, he decides to travel across the country in a Saab, and the money runs out fast. He meets a young gambler named Jack Pozzi, and they scheme to fleece a couple of millionaire bachelors, Flowers and Stone. Unfortunately, their scam fails so they have to become indentured servants to the two men, who want them build a wall on their grounds that nobody will ever see.
Paul Auster is an amazing storyteller and a master at absurdist novels. Flowers and Stone were great villains, and the ending was both surprising and satisfying. You continue to impress me Paul!
RATING: *****
Interesting Facts:
Interesting Facts:
Adapted into a film in 1993 starring James Spader and Mandy Patinkin.
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1 comment:
This was one of the strangest stories I have ever read. I couldn't put it down. I kept thinking, How did this idea even come about????
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