The book of illusions
Subtitle: a novel
By: Paul Auster
Edition: 1st Picador ed.
Publisher: Picador; Henry Holt and Co.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9780312421816
Subjects: Absence and presumption of death; Widowers; Biographers; Comedians; Fiction; Silent films; Aircraft accident victims' families; Missing persons
Description: Professor David Zimmer is drinking himself to death over the death of his family in a plane crash when one night he sees a clip from a film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Mann vanished in 1929, but his films have begun to reappear anonymously in film archives around the world. Zimmer embarks on a journey to study the films, and thus begins a story within a mystery within a fable.