num_pages: 314
description: The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story, the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor.
language: English
title: The New York Trilogy: City of Glass / Ghosts / The Locked Room
titlecomplete: The New York Trilogy: City of Glass / Ghosts / The Locked Room
characters: Peter Stillman, Black, Blue, Daniel Quinn
genres: Literature, American, Crime, Classics, Novels, New York, Fiction, The United States Of America, Contemporary, Mystery
ratings_count: 72585
places: New York City, New York, Manhattan, New York City, New York
series: New York Trilogy
publisher: Faber and Faber