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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher St Martins Pr
Publication date May 1, 2007
Pages 118
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780312948405
ISBN-10 0312948409
Dimensions 0.50 by 4.50 by 7 in.
Weight 0.15 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $7.99
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description:
An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues.Determining that he is locked in, the man-identified only as Mr. Blank-begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn't recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his cell-vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can't remember-and each brings frustrating hints of his identity and his past. All the while an overhead camera clicks and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someone is watching.Both chilling and poignant, Travels in the Scriptorium is vintage Paul Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor. And yet, as we discover during one day in the life of Mr. Blank, his world is not so different from our own.


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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780786296422 Book cover for 9780805081459
 
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (July 5, 2007)
9780786296422 | details & prices | 185 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.74 lbs | List price $30.95
About: An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber.
from Henry Holt & Co (January 23, 2007)
9780805081459 | details & prices | 145 pages | 6.25 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $22.00
About: An elderly man awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar room, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and receives visits from a series of people who give him frustrating hints about his identity and his past.
from Gardners Books (October 5, 2006)
9780571232550 | details & prices | 144 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $21.00
About: An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780312426293 Book cover for 9780312948405
 
Reprint edition from Picador USA (December 26, 2007)
9780312426293 | details & prices | 145 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.34 lbs | List price $14.00
About: An elderly man awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar room, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and as he waits, visited by a series of people who give him frustrating hints about his identity and his past, he peruses the relics on the desk, including a mysterious manuscript about another prisoner in an alternate world.
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from St Martins Pr (May 1, 2007)
9780312948405 | details & prices | 118 pages | 4.50 × 7.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.15 lbs | List price $7.99
About: An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber.
Miscellaneous
1 edition from Henry Holth & Co (January 23, 2007)
9781429904674 | details & prices | List price $9.99
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9781400103744 Book cover for 9781400153749
 
With Dick Hill (other contributor) | Mp3 una edition from Tantor Media Inc (March 1, 2007)
9781400153749 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.22 lbs | List price $19.99
About: An elderly man awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar room, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and receives visits from a series of people who give him frustrating hints about his identity and his past.
With Dick Hill (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Tantor Media Inc (March 1, 2007)
9781400103744 | details & prices | 5.00 × 5.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.54 lbs | List price $24.99
About: An elderly man awakens disoriented in an unfamiliar room, with no memory of who he is or how he got there, and receives visits from a series of people who give him frustrating hints about his identity and his past.

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