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City of Glass

Author: Paul Auster   Series: Contemporary American Fiction

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A mystery writer assumes a detective's identity and embarks on a bizzare case: he must protect a man from his criminally insane father, and as he follows the elusive criminal, he embarks on a mission that takes him to the depths of his own soul. Auster's In the Country of Last Things is being published this month by Viking.

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A mystery writer assumes a detective's identity and embarks on a bizzare case: he must protect a man from his criminally insane father, and as he follows the elusive criminal, he embarks on a mission that takes him to the depths of his own soul. Auster's In the Country of Last Things is being published this month by Viking.

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Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, "City of Glass" inaugurates an intriguing "New York Trilogy" of novels that "The Washington Post Book World" has 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 Glass" combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense. "Ghosts" and "The Locked Room" are the next two brilliant installments in Paul Auster's "The New York Trilogy," available in a one volume edition.

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Critic Reviews

“"Remarkable. . .the book is a pleasure to read, full of suspense and action. . .[A] strange and powerful adventure in Paul Auster's art." - The New York Times Book Review ”

"Remarkable. . .the book is a pleasure to read, full of suspense and action. . .[A] strange and powerful adventure in Paul Auster's art."

  • The New York Times Book Review "Exhilarating. . .A brilliant investigation of the storyteller's art, guided by a writer-detective who's never satisfied with just the facts."
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer

    "A wondrous whodunit for metaphysicians, an intricate detective story and many-layered romance."

  • Russell Banks

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About the Author

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of "Oracle Night", "The Book of Illusions", and "Timbuktu". "I Thought My Father Was God", the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited, was also a national bestseller. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books | Penguin Putnam Inc
Published
30th April 1987
Pages
208
ISBN
9780140097313

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