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Original Title:	The Book of Illusions
ISBN:	0312990960 (ISBN13: 9780312990961)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.macmillan.com/thebookofillusions/PaulAuster
Characters:	David Zimmer, Hector Mann
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Borders Original Voices Award for Fiction (2002), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2004)

The Book of Illusions

Paul Auster

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 20945 Users | 1113 Reviews

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Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann. His interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight back in 1929.

When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer’s mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico inviting him to meet Hector. Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever.

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Title	:	The Book of Illusions
Author	:	Paul Auster
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	July 13th 2003 by Picador Paper (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Literature. American. Contemporary

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Ratings: 3.85 From 20945 Users | 1113 Reviews

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A linear account of the story would disclose that David Zimmer, professor of comparative literature at a Vermont liberal arts college, lost his wife and two young sons in a tragic plane crash, and as an antidote to debilitating depression, threw himself into a study of the films of Hector Mann, an obscure comedian from the silent film era who disappeared some 60 years ago. Three months after this analytic tome was published, he received a cryptic letter from a woman named Frieda Spelling. Would

The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster The Book of Illusions is a novel by American writer Paul Auster, published in 2002. It was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2004.Set in the late 1980s, the story is written from the perspective of David Zimmer, a university professor who, after losing his wife and children in a plane crash, falls into a routine of depression and isolation. After seeing one of the silent comedies of Hector Mann, an actor missing since the 1920s, he



*WARNING FOR SPOILERS*If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound or not? This famous question is closely examined in "The Book of Illusions," by author Paul Auster, as he tells the story of literature professor David Zimmer, who copes with the death of his wife and two sons by shutting out the real world so that he can inhabit the "silent world of Hector Mann," an obscure actor from the 1920s. After leaving a dozen movies behind that nobody seems to know about,

A few of my favorite things: smart men, secret lives, cinema, facial scars, multi-layered mystery, artistic masterpieces unveiled, itchy sexual tension...I can't love this book any more. One of my favorite books ever.

Being drawn into Paul Auster's fiction was one of the reasons my reading became more widespread. This story grabbed me from the off, and was indeed difficult to put down. Ok so he is an acquired taste, but there is just something about his writing that hooks you in and doesn't let go so easily. The story here is both captivating and strangely mysterious. It's all about digging into the past in quite an obsessive manner, just who was Hector Mann?, what happened to him?, is he still alive?,

Rating: one furious, disgusted star of however many stars there are in a galaxyI've never been fond of pompous writing, the kind that checks its look in the mirror of acclaim and piles on the self-satisfied smirking smugness that makes me want to torch all the MFA schools I can reach.My review, which I've moved to my blog, says that and more. Apparently the hoi polloi slithering in from the Internet's more sanctimonious quarters don't agree with me, therefore I must be wrong.