title: The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room  (Contemporary American Fiction Series)
author:  Paul Auster 
description: <b>Praise for <i>The New York Trilogy:</i></b><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Eminently readable and mysterious. . .Auster has added some new dimensions to modern literature, and &ndash; more importantly even &ndash; to our perspectives on our planet.&rdquo; <br><b>&ndash; Fanny Howe, <i>The Boston Globe</i></b><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Exhilarating. . .a brilliant investigation of the storyteller&rsquo;s art guided by a writer who&rsquo;s never satisfied with just the facts.&rdquo; <br><b>&ndash; <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;It&rsquo;s as if Kafka had gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version.&rdquo; <b>&ndash; <i>The Washington Post</i></b><br> &#160;<br> &ldquo;Auster harnesses the inquiring spirit any reader brings to a mystery, redirecting it from the grubby search for a wrongdoer to the more rarified search for self.&rdquo; <br><b>&ndash; <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b><br> <i>&#160;</i>
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  > Paul Auster
  
  > Penguin (1986)
  
  
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  > Tags: Mystery Detective, Fiction, General, Mystery Fiction, Literary,
  > Psychological, New York (State), New York, New York (N.Y.), Short Stories
  > (Single Author), Short Stories, City and Town Life, City and Town Life - New
  > York (State) - New York - Fiction, New York (N.Y.) - Social Life and Customs
  > - Fiction  
  Mystery Detectivettt Fictionttt Generalttt Mystery Fictionttt Literaryttt
  Psychologicalttt New York (State)ttt New Yorkttt New York (N.Y.)ttt Short
  Stories (Single Author)ttt Short Storiesttt City and Town Lifettt City and
  Town Life - New York (State) - New York - Fictionttt New York (N.Y.) - Social
  Life and Customs - Fictionttt
  
  
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   Paul Auster's brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked
  Room, are here collected in a cloth edition for the first time in the United
  States. These three novels brought Auster international acclaim for his
  creation of a new genre, mixing elements o