Reviews for Music of Chance

The average rating for Music of Chance based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-10-23 00:00:00 Dominic Sindoni 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 chancers Mix 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 money Shake things up thoroughly Pound with one large but outwardly amiable henchman until tender and bloody Leave overnight to absorb the consequences and stew in own juices Pop into a metal vessel then turn up the heat. I’m not going to say anymore aside from the fact that this absurdist novel by Paul Auster is, of all the novels he has written, my very own favourite.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-05-14 00:00:00 Jean Mario Bernard [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.