description: In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fifteenth-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 blind 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.
language: English
title: The Music of Chance
titlecomplete: The Music of Chance
characters: Jim Nashe, Jack Pozzi
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Classics, Contemporary, The United States Of America, American, Roman, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 11526
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Faber Faber Inc