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City of Glass
  

City of Glass (Hardcover)

by Paul Auster (Author) "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..." (more)
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When a stranger calls on Daniel Quinn's phone asking to speak to Paul Auster (supposedly a detective), Quinn claims to be Auster and soon is drawn into a case involving a man who fears his father is trying to kill him. "An impressive if not major work," PW concluded.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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Daniel Quinn, author of a series of de tective pot-boilers, accepts an assign ment as a real private investigator from a man who dials his phone number by mistake. His mission: to keep an eye on the man's father, a former linguistics professor who has spent time in jail for bizarre childrearing experiments. Quinn quickly loses track of both his client and the suspect, as well as his own apartment and belongings, and fi nally his identity. This metafictional mystery, reminiscent of Robbe-Gril let's anti-novel The Erasers, challenges conventional notions of character and plot. However, unless the remaining volumes of this projected trilogy pro vide more depth and substance, Aus ter's previous book, The Invention of Solitude, will probably remain the best introduction to his work. Edward B. St. John, Loyola Marymount Univ. Lib., Los Angeles
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 trying to keep the reader confused, Mai 3 2004
Par "alexstorm" (Berlin, Germany) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: City Of Glass (Paperback)
"City of Glass" is Austers first book of his "New York Trilogy". He keeps his themes so it is also about poverty, hunger and chance. "City of Glass" is about the writer Daniel Quinn who pretends to be the detective Paul Auster. Quinn observes a man who locked in his son for years in the dark in order to teach him god's language. Quinns client fears his father who will be set free from jail. Daniel Quinn is like the other protagonists by Paul Auster. At the beginning "City of Glass" is a very trilling novel. If you read something else by Auster before you read this book you may know what will happen. In the end your expectations won't be fullfilled. For me it is too strange because I don't like Austers theories of chance.
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3.0étoiles sur 5 ANOTHER FICTIONAL RORSCHACH TEST, Mars 2 2003
Par John D. Burlinson "whoa_boy" (Austin, TX United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: City Of Glass (Paperback)
I place this item on a none-too-tiny list of literary Rorschach tests. Unconvinced? Please sample any ten of my fellow reviewer's estimates of the "meaning" of this book.
The best parts of this book are the hero's various meetings with the two Peter Stillmans, father & son. The dialogs between Quinn and these two grotesques are very amusing.
Interesting use of the author as character in his own fiction -- though not as entertaining as other still-living masters of this specialty: Roth (P.), Vidal, Mailer.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 I didn't get it at first, Déc 18 2002
Par C. D. Murphy (Natick, MA United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: City Of Glass (Paperback)
I put the book down and had thought well of it, but not worthy of a review let alone a good one, but as I went to sleep that night, it hit me. At the point that I understood what the main character represented, which was a Campbellian march through the four phases of life, I became quite impressed with what Auster had done. I need to read it again to see all the details that I missed not understanding the parallels with life, but look for this as you read it: from his birth as Auster, to understanding language with Stillman, the identity crisis with the father, the mid-life crisis after meeting his namesake, the question of paths during this, the isolation of late life and finally the fading away. On this level, the story is absolutely stunning.

I think there are other levels that smarter people than myself have figured out and maybe with the next reading I will see some of them.

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3.0étoiles sur 5 not a real detective story
We were suposed to read "City of Glass" out of Auster's NEW YORK TRILOGY in our English advanced class. Read more
Publié le Mai 2 2004 par Michael Gade

1.0étoiles sur 5 Dry, boring and unrewarding
Paul Auster's City of Glass is perhaps the worst read I've experienced. The story moves at a pace that would make a snail envious; the murder mystery plot is as thin as air and... Read more
Publié le Nov. 10 2003 par Robert W. Macdowell

5.0étoiles sur 5 Better Than Kafka...Auster's BEST!
A writer, through an odd phone call, investigates a possible future murder, meets doubles, investigates the origins of language and the tower of Babel, and meets an eccentric... Read more
Publié le Oct. 17 2002 par S. Henkels

4.0étoiles sur 5 The definition of thought provoking
After reading several of the reviews on City of Glass, I felt a need to give my own opinion. This is a book of perception. Read more
Publié le Oct. 10 2002 par Elia

5.0étoiles sur 5 You are incorrect sir.
Mesmerizing. Paul Auster throws a tale at me the likes of which I have never seen. This book was given to me by my father, who in turn had been recommended it by a college... Read more
Publié le Janv. 19 2002 par Jacob Malewitz

3.0étoiles sur 5 great start; ending fizzles (3 and a half stars)
I was very intrigued through about three fourths of this book. I loved the ideas presented about language and identity. But, towards the end, I found myself a little... Read more
Publié le Jui 28 2001 par lady detective

3.0étoiles sur 5 Impressive narrative skills, but...
...the point is not astounding enough, i think.
IMHO, books like "the neglected spring" (Hans Scherfig) does a much better job in showing the fatal flaws in humans... Read more
Publié le Mai 15 2001 par Niels Sørensen

4.0étoiles sur 5 A metaphysical mystery
It seems this is a post-modern book. It has elements of a conventional mystery story, but in the end it's a study of personality, reality and so on. Read more
Publié le Déc 7 2000 par Niko Peltonen

5.0étoiles sur 5 It's the Process, Not the Ending
From the first page, you're just sucked into the world of the main character, the detective Quinn. One of the best American writer today, Paul Auster's works are mainly based on... Read more
Publié le Mai 7 2000 par Chiang Hai Tat

5.0étoiles sur 5 An intriguing and engrossing post-modern whodunnit
The wonderful thing about "City of Glass" is that as a post-modern work, it is open to a number of different interpretations. Read more
Publié le Nov. 18 1999

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