City of Glass by Paul Auster
Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery, this book inaugurates the intriguing New York Trilogy. The Washington Post Book World: "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version."
City of Glass by Paul Auster
2nd trade paperback printing
Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, spine has slight wear at edges. Softcover.
Publishing Info: Penguin, New York, 1987
ISBN: 9780140097313
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.
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