The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room (Contemporary American Fiction Series)

ISBN: 0140131558

Author: Auster, Paul

Condition: New

The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, from New York Times bestselling author Paul AusterExhilarating . . . a brilliant investigation of the storytellers art guided by a writer-detective whos never satisfied with just the facts.-The Philadelphia InquirerCity 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 by White to spy on Black. From a window of a rented room on Orange Street, Blue keeps watch on his subject, who is across the street, staring out of his own window.The Locked Room: Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and a cache of extraordinary novels, plays, and poems. What happened to him and why is the narrator, Fanshawes boyhood friend, lured obsessively into his life?Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this is a uniquely stylized trilogy of detective novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as post-existential private eye. . . . Its as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version.