City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1)
Paul Auster
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Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glassinaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogyof novels that The Washington Post Book Worldhas classified as "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Written with hallucinatory clarity, City of Glasscombines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense. Ghostsand The Locked Roomare the next two brilliant installments in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.
- Pages
- 203
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- ISBN
- 0140097317