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Leviathan

Livre

Auster, Paul (1947-....)

Edité par Harrap's - 2016

New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathan with the tearing of a bomb explosion and the death of one Benjamin Sachs. Ben's one-time best friend, Peter Aaron, begins to retrospectively investigate the transformation that led Ben from his enviable, stable life to one of a recluse. Both were once intelligent, yet struggling novelists until Ben's near-death experience falling from a fire escape triggers a tumble in which he becomes withdrawn and disturbed, living alone and building bombs in a far-off cabin. That is, until he mysteriously disappears, leaving behind only a manuscript titled Leviathan, pages rustling in the wind / Comment et pourquoi Benjamin Sachs, jeune écrivain talentueux des années Reagan, est-il devenu le poseur de bombes qui plastique l'une après l'autre les multiples statues de la Liberté ornant les villes américaines ? C'est à cette question que cherche à répondre son ami Peter Aaron dans ce récit traité à la manière d'une biographie

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