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The New York Trilogy
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Paul Auster's brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room brought him international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction.
City of Glass combines dark, Kafka-like humor with all the suspense of a Hitchcock film as a writer of 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 - Paul Auster - himself. Ghosts, the second volume of this interconnected trilogy, introduces Blue, a private detective 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 has created.
The final volume, The Locked Room, also begins with a mystery, told this time in first-person narrative. The nameless hero journeys into the unknown as he attempts to reconstruct the past, which he has experienced almost as a dream. Together these three fictions lead the reader on adventures that expand the mind as they entertain.
As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern Vanguard production of Paul Auster's book, you'll also get an exclusive Jim Atlas interview that begins when the audiobook ends.
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- Genevieve Paquette
- 2021-02-08
unexpected
I probably wouldn't have read this half it not been part of a list of mysteries that I'm trying to read through, but I did, and I enjoyed it, although maybe I didn't understand it as well as perhaps I should have.
I think, of the three, I liked The Locked Room the best, probably because it was the most straightforward? Although there was a scene in City of Glass that made me guffaw, and I appreciated that.
I think the fact that I read all three in one go kind of... I don't know. The three stories are all so similar in themes that it made it feel kind of... slow? Repetitive?
At any rate, it was an interesting read and a nice change of pace for me.
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