The New York Trilogy: City of Glass/Ghosts/The Locked Room Contributor(s): Auster, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0140131558 ISBN-13: 9780140131550 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1990 Annotation: Comnbining dark humor, Hitchcock-like suspense, and film-noir prose, these three unique novels--united--form a powerful and thought-provoking puzzle. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Collections & Anthologies - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 89070997 |
Series: Contemporary American Fiction |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.05" W x 7.77" (0.57 lbs) 384 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New York |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels - from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster's work "one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature." Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He's drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that's more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems. |