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  • The Music of Chance

  • By: Paul Auster
  • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
  • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (35 ratings)

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The Music of Chance

By: Paul Auster
Narrated by: Marc Vietor
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Summary

In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of 15th-century stone. For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of "a life of freedom". Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single turn of a card". In Paul Auster's world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims, where chance is a shifting and powerful force, there is redemption, nonetheless, in Nashe's resolute quest for justice and his capacity for love.

As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Paul Auster's book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.

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©1991 Paul Auster (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
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Critic reviews

"All the suspense and pace of a best-selling thriller." (The New York Times)
"A thriller with a conscience, The Music of Chance is one of the best American novels of the year." (Entertainment Weekly)
"In his lucid, captivating yarn, Auster quietly raises disturbing questions of servants and masters, of loyalty, freedom and the inexplicable urge to kill." (Publishers Weekly)

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love the ambiguity of this story

very good. i really like paul auster and very glad i have done this one now

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