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Can I read The New York Trilogy : City Of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room on EtoBox?

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

Who reads The New York Trilogy : City Of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

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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