Man in the Dark (novel)

Man in the Dark
1st edition
Author(s)	Paul Auster
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Novel
Publisher	Henry Holt and Co.
Publication date	August 19, 2008
Media type	Print (Hardback) and Audio CD
Pages	180 pp (hardback edition)
ISBN	ISBN 978-0-571-24076-0 (hardback edition)
OCLC Number	229464027
Preceded by	Travels in the Scriptorium
Followed by	Invisible

For the 1953 movie, see Man in the Dark.

Man in the Dark is a novel by Paul Auster published in August 2008. Its topic is a dystopian scenario of the present-day USA being torn apart by a new secession and civil war after the presidential elections of 2000. (The fictional division between the secessionist and loyal states is very similar to the "Jesusland" map.) This is told within a frame narrative of an aging journalist reflecting on his family and the death of his wife.

Edition

• Man in the Dark, Henry Holt and Co. 2008. ISBN 978-0-571-24076-0

Reviews

• California Literary Review, by Garan Holcombe [1]
• San Francisco Chronicle, by Stephen Elliott [2]
• The Telegraph, by Ruth Scurr [3]
• The New York Review of Books, by Michael Dirda [4]

External links

• Audio interview with Auster about Man in the Dark by George Miller on Faber website