The Music of Chance (Faber Fiction Classics) - Softcover

Nashe comes into an inheritance and decides to pursue a life of freedom. He is drawn to the company of a gambler called Pozzi, but a game of poker goes terribly wrong for them when they join up with Flower and Stone, two eccentric recluses who live on a vast estate in Pennsylvania.

Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.