Oracle night
by Paul Auster
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Recovering from a near-fatal illness, Sidney Orr, a thirty-four-year-old novelist, purchases a mysterious blue notebook from a Brooklyn stationery shop and is drawn into a bizarre world of eerie premonitions and baffling events.
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Notebooks, Novelists, Fiction, Authorship, Large type books, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Man-woman relationships, fiction, Authors, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, psychological, American Novelists, American literature, FICTION / Psychological, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, Schriftsteller, Roman, Literaturproduktion, Krise, Inspiration, Amerikanisch, Men, Psychology, Psychological fictionPeople
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"I had been sick for a long time."
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A novelist recovers from an accident. He begins to write again, after buying a blue portugese notebook. The words flow, but at some point, strange things begin to happen: his beloved wife behaves strangely, fiction and reality get mixed up, and what about this strange stationary shop where he bought the notebook? It disappears over night.
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