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Books : The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room"
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The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room" by: Paul Auster List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £3.99 You Save: £4.00 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780571152230 ISBN: 0571152236 Label: Faber and Faber Manufacturer: Faber and Faber Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: February 05, 2004 Publisher: Faber and Faber Studio: Faber and Faber Sales Rank: 866 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Read again!My short recommendation is that as soon as I finished this book I wanted to turn back to the first page and read it again. I suspect you keep drawing new things from it the more times you read it. Just like listening to very good music... Rating: - painless way into postmodernist metafictionThis is a series of subtle interlocking novellas set in New York published over 85 and 86: City of Glass, "Ghosts" and "Locked Room with the first set in the period, the 2nd in the 40's and the last one in the 70's. They use mystery conventions of the gumshoe detective (think Humphrey Bogart) but in a subversive way as an existentialist reflection on writing, and story creation and communication but at the pace of a thriller; it more Kafka then Chandler with haunting imagery and surreal coincidences. But it also has deep emotional and psychological depths. To give you a flavour of the book, in the City of Glass the main Character is Daniel Quinn a writer who has abandoned writing except for mystery writing owing to the death ... Read More: Rating: - Very DifferentTwo things I have got out of reading this book. First, this author must be one of the best in breaking down complex characters and take the plot where you don't expect it to go. Second, he never finishes the story, at least not in a normal way. I read his book "Travels in the scriptorium" last month and got the same feeling. Nevertheless a five star rating is the least you can give to such a wonderful read. Rating:  - Kafka Gets Private-eyesedWhere Kafka's characters find themselves being frustrated and circumscribed by a system (The Castle & The Trial etc), in Auster's world (New York) this task, it seems, has been privatised and has become the job of private detectives, or those hiring them. It's a very strange world and just as in the narrative where, you can't decide who's following who, the reader (in my case) couldn't decide, whether I was reading the author or the author was reading me. As nothing remarkable continues to happen, throughout the book, there emerges a strange feeling that something is being implied about the reader's identity: that we become the thing we pursue. I am not sure what 'modern' means when it is applied to other art-forms but from this ... Read More: Rating: - Intriguing but Unfulfilling First and foremost this is not a trilogy in the conventional sense. It is not one story told across three episodes but rather three separate stories which follow the same loose theme. This basic similarity, along with a couple of duel appearances of minor characters leads to the three plots being labelled as 'inter-connected' - this is simply misleading. The book can be better described as a collection of short stories. There is no doubt that Paul Auster is a talented author and the three plots have great potential. The problem arises when he sacrifices complexity and culmination of the plot in favour of a psychoanalytical exploration of his characters. What results is a largely uneventful time period with long swathes of writing about ... Read More: |
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