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Title	:	The Music of Chance
Author	:	Paul Auster
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 217 pages
Published	:	March 20th 2001 by Faber & Faber Ltd (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. American

The Music of Chance

Paul Auster

Paperback | Pages: 217 pages

Rating: 3.91 | 9513 Users | 484 Reviews

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In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fifteenth-century stone. For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pusuit of "a life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single turn of a card." In Paul Auster's world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims, where chance is a shifting and powerful force, there is redemption, nonetheless, in Nashe's resolute quest for justice and his capacity for love.

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Original Title:	The Music of Chance
ISBN:	0571203035 (ISBN13: 9780571203031)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jim Nashe, Jack Pozzi
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1991)

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The person who recommended this to me really, really loves it, so I suppose I went in with high expectations - but I didn't feel they were met. The writing is often excellent, and I'm sure Auster is saying many things on many subjects, but I did not enjoy it, and did not feel it hung together well as a story. I felt no connection to or sympathy for any of the characters and the tale seemed to simply meander. I freely admit that I don't have much interest in reading rambling prose about someone

What is a human fate? Is it a preset pattern decided by some divine providence from above? Or is it just a hellish roulette?It was one of those random, accidental encounters that seem to materialize out of thin air a twig that breaks off in the wind and suddenly lands at your feet. Had it occurred at any other moment, it is doubtful that Nashe would have opened his mouth. But because he had already given up, because he figured there was nothing to lose anymore, he saw the stranger as a

Jim Nashe is a frivolous Boston fireman who needs music as a life crutch. His wife abandons him just before his father dies, leaving him money that he squanders aimlessly while driving around America. Near desperation, he meets a bitter young itinerant gambler, Jack ("Jackpot") Pozzi, who lures him into a losing poker game with two shady recluses, Flower and Stone, on their Pennsylvania estate. Nashe and Pozzi must retire their debt by building a stone wall on the premises: what this Herculean

This is not the kind of book I'm used to reading, and I went back and forth with it throughout, often disliking it; finding the characterizations and dialogue thin and unconvincing, but still being drawn in by the hopelessness and futility; the irony of the protagonist's relentless pursuit of freedom, squandering his one means to it, only to end up as a slave through his own reckless and incomprehensibly stupid actions. That's what compelled me towards the end, though I thought parts of the

This book is essentially about some men building a wall. Admittedly it is portrayed as the most sinister episode of landscape gardening that there ever was, but nonetheless it is still, inherently about two men building a wall. How do you make landscape gardening sinister? Here is the recipe:Take one sticky situation.Add two desperate chancersMix in two mendacious and sinister old men (soft on the outside but hard as nails on the inside for the desired texture)Sprinkle on some moneyShake things

The person who recommended this to me really, really loves it, so I suppose I went in with high expectations - but I didn't feel they were met. The writing is often excellent, and I'm sure Auster is saying many things on many subjects, but I did not enjoy it, and did not feel it hung together well as a story. I felt no connection to or sympathy for any of the characters and the tale seemed to simply meander. I freely admit that I don't have much interest in reading rambling prose about someone

[4.5] The Music of Chance ticks with impending doom. Or maybe not. I kept hoping for relief. Auster makes the routine act of building a stone wall (for months) freighted with meaning and suspense. I have so many questions! I am just floored by this book. Brilliant and unnerving.