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The New York Trilogy : City Of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room by Auster, Paul is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The New York Trilogy : City Of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room about?
Paul Auster's brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, are here collected in a cloth edition for the first time in the United States. These three novels brought Auster international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction. City of Glass combines dark, Kafka-like humor with all the suspense of a Hitchcock film as a writer of detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the night asking for the author - Paul Auster - himself. Ghosts, the second volume of this interconnected trilogy, introduces Blue, a private detective hired to watch a man named Black, who, as he becomes intermeshed into a haunting and claustrophobic game of hide-and-seek, is lured into the very trap he has created. The final volume, The Locked Room, also begins with a mystery, told this time in the first-person narrative. The nameless hero journeys into the unknown as he attempts to reconstruct the past which he has experienced almost as a dream. Together these three fictions lead the reader on adventures that expand the mind as
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- Author
- Auster, Paul
- Publisher
- Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated E-Books
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429536349
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Mystery, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (293 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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