- Fiction, City and town life, Social life and customs, Identity (Psychology)
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Paul Auster
- First published
- May 1, 1999
- Pages
- 364
- Publisher
- Anagrama, LGF, Rowohlt.
- Editions
- 70
- Language
- vie, cat, Polish, Russian
- ISBN
- 9788432239274
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“IT was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.”
Paul Benjamin Auster (February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024) was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include *The New York Trilogy* (1987), *Moon Palace* (1989), *The Music of Chance* (1990), *The Book of Illusions* (2002), *The Brooklyn Follies* (2005), *Invisible* (2009), *Sunset Park* (2010), *Winter Journal* (2012), and *4 3 2 1* (2017). His books have been translated into more than 40 languages.
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