Travels in the Scriptorium

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• Spare with the details

  Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster Faber, £12, pp130 An old man. A plain room. A stack of documents and photographs. A procession of visitors entering, speaking in elliptical fashion and leaving again. Paul Auster's slender new novel is not si ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Where's the exit?

  Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster 132pp, Faber, £12.99 An old man sits alone in an empty room. He has no idea how he came to be there, or for how long he will be detained. There are a few bare items of furniture: a bed, a desk, a table lamp, ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Not my style

  I read two of Paul Auster's books, this one and the Red notebook and in both instances I was quite disappointed. I find his style of writing somewhat empty and failing to engage, over descriptive and pointless. Travels in the Scriptorium is a mystery left unsolved...

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  Thais said on Nov 18, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  Paul Auster's worst book. I've read (and I loved) almost every one of his books so far but I'm doubting of reading de new ones.

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• English Books
• Paperback 160 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 0312426291
• ISBN-13: 9780312426293
• Publisher: Picador
• Pub date: Dec 26, 2007
• Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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