num_pages: 203
description: 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.
language: English
title: City of Glass
titlecomplete: City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1)
characters: Peter Stillman, Virginia Stillman, Peter Stillman Jr., Daniel Quinn, Paul Auster
genres: 20th Century, American, Literary Fiction, Novels, Crime, Literature, Classics, Mystery, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 19146
places: New York City, New York, The United States of America
series: New York Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Penguin Books