City of Glass (Contemporary American Fiction)

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.

publishers Weekly

we Don't Know Much About Daniel Quinn. We Do Know That He Is 35, And That At One Time He Had A Wife And Son, Who Are Now Dead. He Writes Mysteries Under The Pseudonym Of William Wilson, And When A Stranger Phones Asking To Speak To Paul Auster, Quinn Decides To Answer To That Name Too. The Caller Is Peter Stillman, A Man With A Most Unusual Past, Who Fears That He Will Be Killed By His Father, Recently Released From An Institution. Quinn (as Auster) Agrees To Trail The Elder Stillman, Who Spends His Days Wandering The Streets Of New York. How Quinn Gradually Becmes Drawn Intoand Finally Obsessed Bystillman's Life And Psyche Makes For A Labyrinthine, Intriguing Story. An Impressive If Not Major Work By The Author Of The Invention Of Solitude.october 14