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From: The Independent on Sunday (London, England) | Date: August 24, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

In Auster's latest bit of literary illusionism, he brings dead men back to life. Hector Mann was an emerging film star of the silent era who directed and starred in 12 two-reel comedies, before he disappeared without trace in 1929, presumed dead. David Zimmer, our narrator, had wished himself dead until he chanced upon a clip of Mann on TV, and it made him chuckle for the first time since his wife and child died in an aeroplane crash and he sank into a suicidal drunken torpor. Inspired to write the first critical study of Mann's work, David later comes to learn the whole improbable story of ...

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