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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) |
Paul Auster
Paperback | Pages: 203 pages Rating: 3.79 | 14512 Users | 922 Reviews
Details Regarding Books City of Glass (New York Trilogy #1)
| Title | : | City of Glass (New York Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Paul Auster |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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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Ratings: 3.79 From 14512 Users | 922 ReviewsCritique Regarding Books City of Glass (New York Trilogy #1)
An interesting PoMo novella. Auster's first novel/second book/first of his 'New York Trilogy', 'City of Glass' is simultaneously a detective novel, an exploration of the author/narrative dynamic, and a treatise on language. I liked parts, loved parts, and finished the book thinking the author had written something perhaps more interesting than important. My favorite parts were the chapters where Auster (actual author Auster) through the narrator Quinn acting as the detective Auster explored
One of the weirdest books I've read so far. Anyway I completed with a hope of enlightenment upto the last but Alas!!! An author of mysteries is drawn into an investigation accidentally and the confusion it ends him up in (and me) is the story in a nutshell. There was a lot of wordplay and nameplay all of which were beyond me. Guess it takes a more intellectual mind than mine to decipher it...
In my review of Paul Karasik and David Mazuchelli's graphic novel version of CITY OF GLASS, I wrote: "The graphic artists give it so much dimension that the text-only version seems (in my memory) to be no more than a screenplay to this version's fully-realized presentation."My memory was wrong. I re-read the original and found it as multi-dimensional as the graphic novel version. Or perhaps the two versions together compounded the book into something greater. Or perhaps they cancelled each other
City of Glass was not what I expected. Which is not a bad thing.I expected a well-crafted, pulpy detective fiction, perhaps borrowing liberally from Hammett, Chandler, and maybe Leonard. And it was to be fraught with New York-ish details and ambiance. I expected it to more or less follow the expectable twists, turns, and general direction of the genre I believed it to take part in.What I got was something different. Not entirely so, of course. But different enough for me to not quite realize
This book is complete crap. It's one of those books where you read the critic's reviews and you think- what in God's name are they talking about?? Kafka? Post modern ? Are they crazy?? This book first of all- was boring. I skipped 10 pages at a time.Second of all-it was boring. Third of all - you get it. BORING.More than anything-this book lets you see the pretentiousness of New York critics. Why is that now? Because the critics are so pompous and so full of hot air- using all these high brow
Wowee. This is some story. I don't entirely know what my feelings about it are yet. I was totally enthralled with the first 75% book, and the rest of it was very interesting even if my attention wavered slightly. Oddly, this feels like a strange pastiche of several different books I've read over the last year. Having finished it, I'm very glad to know that it's a series and there's more to come. I'm also looking forward to reading other reviews of this book, and perhaps some analysis of the
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