City of Glass
Paul Auster
(Author)
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$18.00
$16.74
Publisher
Penguin Books
Publish Date
April 07, 1987
Pages
208
Dimensions
5.06 X 7.76 X 0.56 inches | 0.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780140097313
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About the Author
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honors include the Prix Médicis étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His most recent novel, 4 3 2 1, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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 "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
- 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
