City of Glass: Vol 1 (The New York trilogy) - Softcover

Auster, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140097317 ISBN 13: 9780140097313

Publisher: Penguin, 1987

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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

Book Description:

City of Glass: Graphic Novel, introduced by Art Spiegelman, is a revolutionary reworking of Paul Auster's classic psychological mystery, from Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, the artist behind Batman: Year One.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0140097317
• ISBN 13: 9780140097313
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208