Paul Auster's new book, a ray of hope from 'Cancerland', is called The Invention of Sy Baumgartner. When he was 14 years old, during a summer camp, he saw how a boy was hit...
by lightning. Auster had given himself over to the pleasure of "disorderly" writing. The Book of Illusions is a shamelessly dark comedy in which a man loses the only person he was capable of loving and who desperately seeks a way to continue living without her.