The Music of Chance
Author: Paul Auster
Nashe has decided to pursue a ‘life of freedom’, when he meets Pozzi, an itinerant gambler. Together they go in for an extraordinary game of poker with Flower and Stone, two eccentric recluses living on a vast estate in Pennsylvania.It is a gamble that Nashe and Pozzi will regret for the rest of their lives.The Music of Chance is strange haunting parable by a writer of ext….Read More
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