Author: Paul Auster
Year: 1987
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Mystery, Classic, Short Stories
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9780143039839
0143039830 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List):
Three stories on the nature of identity.
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 they entertain.
This book is part of the "New York Trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Locked Room"
First published in 1986
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 | "Ghosts"
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 | "City of Glass"
First published in 1985
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