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New York Trilogy (Faber Classics) Paul Auster

New York Trilogy (Faber Classics) By Paul Auster

New York Trilogy (Faber Classics) by Paul Auster


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Summary

Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor.

New York Trilogy (Faber Classics) Summary

New York Trilogy (Faber Classics) by Paul Auster

City of Glass: Quinn, a writer of detective fiction, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written.Ghosts: Blue has been hired by White to spy on Black. From the window of his rented room, Blue watches Black in his room across the street. But Black is staring out of his window. Who is watching whom?The Locked Room: When Fanshaw disappears, leaving behind a wife, a baby and an extraordinary cache of novels, plays and poems, his boyhood friend is lured obsessively into the life that Fanshaw left behind.

About Paul Auster

Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in the United States in 1947. He graduated from Columbia University with an MA degree. In 1970 he worked as a merchant seaman on an Esso oil tanker. From 1971 to 1974 he lived in France, spending two years in Paris and one in Provence. After returning to New York in 1974, he began his writing career.Throughout the 1970s he wrote mainly poetry and essays which appeared in various magazines including the New York Review of Books. During the 1980s he concentrated on prose writing: a memoir and four novels were published.His screenplay Smoke and Blue in the Face was published in April 1996 to coincide with the release of the film, and in 1999 Faber published the screenplay Lulu on the Bridge. The Art of Hunger (a collection of essays, interviews and prose) and his Selected Poems were published in November 1998.He is the author of nine novels, including The New York Trilogy

Additional information

GOR001444879
9780571200580
0571200583
New York Trilogy (Faber Classics) by Paul Auster
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Faber & Faber
1999-04-05
320
N/A
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