num_pages: 314
description: For an alternate cover edition see: 9780571200580The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster's work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He’s drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that’s more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.
language: English
title: The New York Trilogy
titlecomplete: The New York Trilogy
characters: Black, Daniel Quinn, Peter Stillman, Blue
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Mystery, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, New York, Crime
ratings_count: 72584
places: Manhattan, New York City, New York, New York City, New York
series: New York Trilogy
publisher: Faber and Faber