From one of America's most original and startlingly imaginative writers: A fireman and a gambler enter a poker game with two rich eccentrics, risking everything on the single blind turn of a card. Jim Nashe is the Boston fireman, who needs music as a life crutch. His wife abandons him just before his father dies, leaving him money that he squanders aimlessly while driving around America. Near desperation, he meets a bitter young itinerant gambler, Jack (''Jackpot'') Pozzi, who lures him into a losing poker game with two shady recluses, Flower and Stone.Nashe and Pozzi must retire their debt by building a stone wall on the premises: what this Herculean labor does to them is the novel's leitmotif.
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Hardback Editions
December 1991 : Hardback
| Title: Music of Chance Author(s): Paul Auster ISBN: 1-4177-0321-0 / 978-1-4177-0321-0 (USA edition) Publisher: San Val Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 1991 : Hardback
| Title: The Music of Chance Author(s): Paul Auster ISBN: 0-571-16157-x / 978-0-571-16157-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1990 : Hardback
| Title: The Music of Chance Author(s): Paul Auster ISBN: 0-670-83535-8 / 978-0-670-83535-5 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Adult Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
January 2006 : Paperback
| Title: The Music of Chance Author(s): Paul Auster ISBN: 0-571-22907-7 / 978-0-571-22907-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
September 2000 : Paperback
| Title: The Music of Chance Author(s): Paul Auster ISBN: 0-571-16526-5 / 978-0-571-16526-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2000 : Paperback
| Title: The Music of Chance (Faber Fiction Classics) Author(s): Paul Auster ISBN: 0-571-20303-5 / 978-0-571-20303-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Faber and Faber Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
November 1997 : Paperback
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December 1996 : Paperback
| Title: Music of Chance Author(s): Paul Auster ISBN: 0-14-015407-8 / 978-0-14-015407-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1993 : Paperback
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October 1991 : Paperback
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1990 : Paperback
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1980 : Paperback
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