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City of Glass (Contemporary American Fiction) Paperback - 1987
by Auster, Paul
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A mystery writer assumes a detective's identity and embarks on a bizzare case: he must protect a man from his criminally insane father, and as he follows the elusive criminal, he embarks on a mission that takes him to the depths of his own soul. Auster's In the Country of Last Things is being published this month by Viking.
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- Title City of Glass (Contemporary American Fiction)
- Author Auster, Paul
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1987-04-07
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0140097317_used
- ISBN 9780140097313 / 0140097317
- Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.06 x 0.56 in (19.71 x 12.85 x 1.42 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Locality: New York, N.Y.
- Library of Congress subjects New York (N.Y.), City and town life - New York (State) - New
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86018678
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
Nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year, City of Glass inaugurates the 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 fiction and crime books, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense to City of Glass.
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- New York Times, 09/12/2004, Page 28
- Publishers Weekly, 02/06/1987, Page 0