Buy this book on-line AUSTER**, PAUL: : Travels in the ScriptoriumLONDON.Faber and Faber Limited,2006. ISBN 0571232558.
UK,slim,small 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,silvered abstract design illustrated dw/dj,with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - though some incidental,light superficial scoring/grazing to foil-type paper - but without penetration and without affecting the boards beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original plain black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain pale grey endpapers.UK,slim,small 8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,1-130pp [paginated] includes story without chapters or chapter numeration; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,and 8pp blanks at the rear.
An old man sits in a room,with a single door and window,a bed,a desk and a chair.Each day he awakes with no memory,unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room.Attached to the few objects around him are one-word,hand-written labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper.Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment,but also of love and promises.
Who is this Mr Blank,and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise?
After the huge success of 'The Brooklyn Follies','Travels in the Scriptorium' sees Auster return to more metaphysical territory.A dark puzzle,and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike,it is an ingenious exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time.
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