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Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of 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.
Why does his wife suddenly break down in tears in the backseat of a taxi just hours after Sidney begins writing in the notebook? Why does M.R. Chang, the owner of the stationery shop, precipitously shut down his business the next day? What are the connections between a 1938 Warsaw telephone directory and a lost novel in which the hero can predict the future? At what point does animosity explode into violence? To what degree is forgiveness the ultimate expression of love?
This is Auster at his most oracular -- and probably least satisfying. He's far better in describing the mixture of the sensual and tawdry in a darkly lit sex club, a writer's pleasure in finding just the right notebook, the human need to forgive.
....What appears to be and what is are never the same, and disaster patiently lurks in the gap between them. In that no-man's-land Paul Auster builds his ingratiating yet paradoxical fictions. Michael Dirda
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