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The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Paul Auster

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Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room — haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

City of Glass
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.

Ghosts
Blue, a student of Brown, has been hired to spy on Black. From a window of a rented house on Orange street, Blue stalks his subject, who is staring out of his window.

The Locked Room
Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and a cache of novels, plays, and poems. What happened?

Features an introduction from Luc Sante and incredible cover illustrations by Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers.

Review:

"Eminently readable and mysterious...Auster has added some new dimensions to modern literature and — more importantly even — to our perspectives on the planet." Fanny Howe, The Boston Globe

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"Three exhilarating installments...a brilliant investigation of the storyteller's art guided by a writer-detective who's never satisfied with just the facts." The Philadelphia Inquirer

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"Auster harnesses the inquiring spirit any reader brings to a mystery, redirecting it from the grubby search for a wrongdoer to the more rarefied search for self." The New York Times Book Review

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"The New York Trilogy is nothing less than truly scintillating....A work of manifest originally, if not genius....Satisfying, even electrifying." San Francisco Examiner

Synopsis:

First published in 1985-"1986, "The New York Trilogy "("City of Glass, Ghosts," and "The Locked Room") brought immediate international attention to its author, Paul Auster, and elevated him to near-celebrity status, particularly in France.

This trilogy and his many works since then (including "In the Country of Last Words," "Leviathan," "Mr. Vertigo," "Moon Palace," and others) have been translated into numerous languages and have brought him further world attention. Auster's trilogy broke ground in its mix of serious fictional techniques and detective and mystery genres. Geoffrey O'Brien of "The Village Voice "wrote: ""The New York Trilogy "are novels of desire: the desire to write a detective novel, to read one, to -inhabit it. . . . By turning the mystery novel inside out, Auster may have -initiated a whole new round of storytelling." This new edition will delight readers and collectors of Auster's work.

Synopsis:

Auster's signature work, "The New York Trilogy" ("City of Glass, Ghosts," and "The Locked Room") consists of three interlocking tales--haunting and mysterious--that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

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About the Author

Paul Auster's novels include Brooklyn Follies, Oracle Night, and In the Country of Last Things, as well as two memoirs, a collection of essays, a volume of poems, and the screenplays for several films. His work has been translated into over 30 languages.

Art Spiegelman is a cartoonist who first came to attention in the early 1980s as editor of the magazine Raw. His books include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust story Maus, Maus II, and In the Shadow of No Towers. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

Luc Sante teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College. His books include Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts.

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Roger Sarao, August 19, 2006 (view all comments by Roger Sarao)
Paul Auster is a word detective -- clever, sometimes too clever -- but he's at his most witty and inventive in this early trilogy. This is the set of books that turned me on to Auster, and led me to Book of Illusions, Oracle Night and In the Country of Last Things. Challenging reading in a highly entertaining manner. His writings reinforce my belief in the power of words, and bring to mind -- for various reasons -- writers such as Nabakov, Fowles and Jack O'Connell. A genuine original. The fact that I can't recall the specifics of this trilogy hardly matters. What I remember is the feeling of reading something new, or rather something old written in a new way. Hearing Auster's name always brings to mind the term "linguistics," which to me is the shortest yet most descriptive term for characterizing both Auster the writer and his collective body of work.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780143039839
Subtitle:
City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room
Author:
Auster, Paul
Introduction:
Sante, Luc
Author:
Spiegelman, Art
Author:
Sante, Luc
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
City and town life
Subject:
Mystery & Detective - General
Subject:
Classics
Edition Description:
Penguin Classics Deluxed Edition
Series:
Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Publication Date:
April 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
308
Dimensions:
8.26 x 5.23in
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