Man in the Dark (2008)

Man in the Dark is a novel by Paul Auster published in August 2008. Its topic is a dystopian scenario of the present-day United States 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.

Editions

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

Reviews

California Literary Review, by Garan Holcombe

San Francisco Chronicle, by Stephen Elliott

The Telegraph, by Ruth Scurr

The New York Review of Books, by Michael Dirda

The Washington Post, by Jeff Turrentine (Washington Post Best Books of the Year)