The person on the other end of the phone mistakes Daniel Quinn for a detective and entrusts him with a case. This is the start of City of Glass, the first of the three novels that make up The New York Trilogy. In Ghosts, the second in the series, a private detective and the man who he follows play hide and seek in a claustrophobic urban universe. Finally, in The Locked Room the protagonist is confronted with the memories of a childhood friend when his wife writes to him telling of his mysterious disappearance. In this ...
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The person on the other end of the phone mistakes Daniel Quinn for a detective and entrusts him with a case. This is the start of City of Glass, the first of the three novels that make up The New York Trilogy. In Ghosts, the second in the series, a private detective and the man who he follows play hide and seek in a claustrophobic urban universe. Finally, in The Locked Room the protagonist is confronted with the memories of a childhood friend when his wife writes to him telling of his mysterious disappearance. In this trilogy Auster steers, manipulates, and reinvents the detective genre; he blends a post modern perspective with a metaphysical tone.
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