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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.
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The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster
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- 2002
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- Title
- The Book of Illusions
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Paul Auster
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co.
- Publisher
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover with dust jacket
- ISBN10
- 0805054081
- ISBN13
- 9780805054088
- Category
- World prose
- 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.