num_pages: 208
description: Paul Auster fuses Samuel Beckett and The Brothers Grimm in this brilliant and unsettling parable.Following the death of his father, Jim Nashe takes to the open road. But there he picks up Pozzi, a hitchhiking gambler, and soon after is drawn into a dangerous game of high-stakes poker with two eccentric and reclusive millionaires...
language: English
title: The Music of Chance
titlecomplete: The Music of Chance
characters: Jack Pozzi, Jim Nashe
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Roman, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 11529
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
publisher: Faber and Faber