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The New York Trilogy

Paul Auster

The contemporary classic from ‘our supreme post-modernist’ (Ian McEwan) – expanding the possibilities of the noir detective novel – whose writing ‘shines with intelligence and originality’ (Don DeLillo)

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Ebook
ISBN
9780571246120
Date Published
04.09.2008
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Summary

The contemporary classic from ‘our supreme post-modernist’ (Ian McEwan) – expanding the possibilities of the noir detective novel – whose writing ‘shines with intelligence and originality’ (Don DeLillo)

The New York Trilogy is the most astonishing work by America’s most consistently astonishing writer: three interconnected novels that exploit the riveting elements of classic detective fiction to achieve a radical new genre – a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges. 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. The result is the modern novel at its finest which will shock, transfix and astound every reader.

‘Marks a new departure for the American novel.’
Observer

‘A shatteringly clever piece of work . . . Utterly gripping, written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind.’
Sunday Telegraph

‘One of the great American prose stylists of our time.’ New York Times

‘Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter.’
New York Review of Books

Critic Reviews

A super-abundantly gifted, big-hearted novelist . . . Our supreme post-modernist.

Ian McEwan
Critic Reviews

His writing shines with intelligence and originality.

Don DeLillo
Critic Reviews

It felt like he was splitting open the atom … We will have Auster's words still speaking to us down through those years yet to come.

Colum McCann
Critic Reviews

A monumental literary presence.

Joyce Carol Oates
Critic Reviews

He can out-Roth, out-Updike and out-Franzen the greatest.

Financial Times
Critic Reviews

The most distinguished American writer of his generation.

Spectator
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Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace and The New York Trilogy. He and Spencer Ostrander collaborated on Bloodbath Nation. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature.  His other honours include the Prix Medicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the Screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book…

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