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Original Title:	City of Glass
ISBN:	0140097317 (ISBN13: 9780140097313)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	New York Trilogy #1
Characters:	Daniel Quinn, Peter Stillman, Peter Stillman Jr., Virginia Stillman, Paul Auster
Setting:	United States of America
Literary Awards:	Edgar Award Nominee for Best Novel (1986)

City of Glass (New York Trilogy #1)

Paul Auster

Paperback | Pages: 203 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 14512 Users | 922 Reviews

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Title	:	City of Glass (New York Trilogy #1)
Author	:	Paul Auster
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 203 pages
Published	:	April 7th 1987 by Penguin Books (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Literature. American. Novels. Contemporary. Classics

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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.

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I was torn between 3 and 5 stars and have settled on 4.My 3 star review: This is solidly written. The prose is good but not breathtaking. The themes and premise are thought-provoking if slightly contrived, consciously self-conscious. I respect what Auster has done here. I can't say that the story resonated with me in a deeply personal way. There are parts I still don't quite understand.My 5 star review: This library book had been calling me from the shelf for so long, I finally gave in and read

Not a real review. Just some random selection from my notes. Hope I can clarify some things for myself 'cause the book stymied me. Stymied, I says!May contain spoilers. Probably. I have no idea, man. Just to be safe, though, I don't think anyone oughta be reading this.1. Our main character, Daniel Quinn, wrote a series of detective novels using the moniker William Wilson. The detective's name was Max Work. When Quinn went to see Peter Stillman, he said his name was Paul Auster.(Just a vessel for

A detective dime-store novel parading as an existential study about multiple identities. Paul Auster has written a strange, often times sad, short novel about a failed poet turned crime writer turned accidental private dick turned street-corner philosopher turned.... you get the idea. What's refreshing is that the novel is not concerned with solving a mystery, but actually making the mystery so thick and obtuse that the reader won't find an easy escape route. Auster throws in a whole array of

The novel is apparently written under the impression of Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges and there are many allusions to the other tales by that wizard of modern literature. Both City of Glass and Death and the Compass are the most original postmodern mysteries I ever read.Whatever he knew about these things, he had learned from books, films, and newspapers. He did not, however, consider this to be a handicap. What interested him about the stories he wrote was not their relation to the

Paul Auster's City of Glass reads like Raymond Chandler on Derrida, that is, a hard-boiled detective novel seasoned with a healthy dose of postmodernist themes, a novel about main character Daniel Quinn as he walks the streets of uptown New York City. I found the story and writing as compelling as Chandler's The Big Sleep or Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and as thought-provoking as reading an essay by Foucault or Barthes. By way of example, here are three quotes from the novel coupled with key

What a disaster. This is like a vastly inferior The Crying of Lot 49. People who like it presumably call it a brilliant subversion of traditional mystery-genre expectations. I call it bullshit.Basically there's this writer, Quinn, who gets a mysterious call looking for a detective called Paul Auster (Auster, the author, is apparently the sort of author who includes himself as a character in his books...sigh). Quinn of course takes on both the case and Auster's identity. The only good parts of

219. The New York Trilogy: City of Glass (New York Trilogy #1), Paul AusterCity of Glass, features a detective-fiction writer become private investigator who descends into madness as he becomes embroiled in a case. The first story, City of Glass, features a detective fiction writer-become-private investigator who descends into madness as he becomes embroiled in a case. It explores layers of identity and reality, from Paul Auster the writer of the novel to the unnamed "author" who reports the