Oracle Night Av Paul Auster

<p><i>Oracle Night </i>is a compulsively readable novel by ''one of the great writers of our time.'' (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>).<br><br> Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.<br><br>If <i>The New York Trilogy </i>was Paul Auster''s detective story, his mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. <i>Oracle Night</i> is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster''s reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today. <br><br> ''His old-fashioned art of cre