EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE• In this stunning debut novel, the first volume in Paul Auster’s acclaimed
The New York Trilogy,
an author determined to solve a mystery begins to descend into madness.
“Remarkable . . . The book is a pleasure to read, full of suspense and action. . . . [A] strange and powerful adventure.”—
The New York Times Book Review
After a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, an author of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Composed with hallucinatory clarity,
City of Glass
combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense.
inaugurates the intriguing
New York Trilogy
of novels that
The Washington Post Book World
has classified as “post-existential private eye. . . . It’s as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version.”
The brilliant installments of Paul Auster’s
The New York Trilogy
include:
CITY OF GLASS• GHOSTS• THE LOCKED ROOM