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The Book of Illusions

novel by Auster

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In Paul Auster
The Book of Illusions (2002) traces a writer’s immersion in the oeuvre of an obscure silent film star as he copes with his grief at the deaths of his wife and children in a plane crash. Travels in the Scriptorium (2007) centres on an unidentified…
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