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Man in the Dark
First edition
Author Paul Auster
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Henry Holt and Co.
Publication date
August 19, 2008
Media typePrint ( Hardback) and Audio CD
Pages180 pp
ISBN 978-0-571-24076-0
OCLC 229464027
Preceded by Travels in the Scriptorium 
Followed by Invisible 

Man in the Dark is a novel by Paul Auster published in August 2008. Its topic is a dystopian scenario of the present-day United States being torn apart by a new secession and civil war after the presidential elections of 2000. (The fictional division between the secessionist and loyal states is very similar to the " Jesusland" map.) This is told within a frame narrative of an aging journalist reflecting on his family and the death of his wife.

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Reviews

  • California Literary Review, by Garan Holcombe [1]
  • San Francisco Chronicle, by Stephen Elliott [2]
  • The Telegraph, by Ruth Scurr [3]
  • The New York Review of Books, by Michael Dirda [4]
  • The Washington Post, by Jeff Turrentine [5] (Washington Post Best Books of the Year)

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