An edition of Man in the Dark (2008)

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An edition of Man in the Dark (2008)

Man in the dark

1st ed.
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  • 3 Currently reading
  • 6 Have read

Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget--his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death.--From publisher description.

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Henry Holt and Co.
Language
English
Pages
180

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New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3551.U77 M36 2008, PS3551.U77M36 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
180

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL20963080M
ISBN 10
0805088393
ISBN 13
9780805088397
LCCN
2007037515
OCLC/WorldCat
173182520
LibraryThing
5282259
Goodreads
3078560

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1682214W

Work Description

August Brill ha sufrido un accidente de coche y se está recuperando en casa de su hija, en Vermont. No puede dormir, e inventa historias en la oscuridad. En una de ellas, es Owen Brick, un joven mago que despierta en el fondo de un foso. No sabe dónde está pero oye el ruido de una batalla. Entonces aparece el sargento Serge, que le ayuda a salir, y Brick descubre que América está inmersa en una oscura guerra civil. Los atentados del once de septiembre no han tenido lugar, y tampoco la guerra de Irak. Los Estados Unidos combaten desde hace tiempo, pero contra ellos mismos. Unos cuantos estados han declarado la independencia. Brick se entera de que su misión es asesinar a un tal Blake, o Block, o Black, un hombre que no puede dormir, y que inventa en la noche esa guerra que no acabará nunca si él no muere. Aunque no se llama Blake ni Block ni Black, sino August Brill, y puede contarnos una feroz y veraz fábula de nuestros días. «Prepárense a robarle tiempo al sueño para devorársela en una sola noche. Así es Auster, queridos» (Manuel Rodríguez Rivero); «Una espléndida historia de fantasías posibles, mundos paralelos y juegos con la Historia» (Javier Aparicio Maydeu, El País).

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