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Title: Disappointing, not credible
Review: I would have liked to have liked this book. The basic idea--a silent movie comedian who has vanished, but kept making films--is intriguing. And it comes fairly close to working, at least for the first half of the book. The last half doesn't work, however. It requires us to believe some of the characters would act in inexplicable ways and it asks us to accept a much too fortuitous timing of events. I can't imagine, for instance, that the protagonist would go back to Vermont and leave his new-found love to join him later. I can't believe that the wife of the vanished comedian is as nuts as she must be to do what she does. Of course Auster is a good writer. There's plenty of evidence for that in his other books. But I don't think he really thought this one through sufficiently. Not recommended.
