Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
Penguin Classics (2006), Edition: Illustrated, 308 pages
Description
City of glass: A writer of a detective stories becomes embroiled in a complex and puzzling series of events, beginning with a call from a stranger in the middle of the night asking for the author. Ghosts: Introduces Blue, a private dectective hired to watch a man named Black, who, as he becomes intermeshed into a haunting and claustrophobic game of hide-and-seek is lured into the very trap he created. The locked room: The nameless hero journeys into the unkown as he attemps to reconstruct the past which he has experienced almost as a dream.
Media reviews
Lecturalia
Una llamada telefónica equivocada introduce a un escritor de novelas policiacas en una extraña historia de complejas relaciones paternofiliales y locura; un detective sigue a un hombre por un claustrofóbico universo urbano; la misteriosa desaparición de un amigo de la infancia confronta a un
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hombre con sus recuerdos. Tres novelas que proponen una relectura posmoderna del género policiaco y que supusieron la revelación de uno de los más interesantes novelistas de nuestro tiempo.
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Subjects
Awards
V&A Illustration Award (Folio Society -- 2009)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1985 (City of Glass)
1986 (Ghosts)
1986 (The Locked Room)
Physical description
320 p.; 8.42 x 0.87 inches
ISBN
0143039830 / 9780143039839
Call number
LIT.AUP.NYT
Library's review
Paul Auster’s signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room—haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.
Pages
320