Paul Auster
1987
Around 310 pages
Welcome to the party pal! I'm excited to reach Paul Auster, who I have been a fan of a long time. Luckily, the Listmakers are Paul Auster fan boys too, so he will be with us for awhile. I think he may be overrepresented on this List, but I would defend the addition of this entry.
The New York Trilogy is, unsurprisingly, a trilogy of novels that were originally published separately, but are now published as one volume. City of Glass features a meta examination of an author of detective fiction who becomes a private investigator. Ghosts is about a private eye called Blue, trained by Brown, who is investigating a man named Black on Orange Street for a client named White. The Locked Room is the story of a writer who lacks the creativity to produce fiction (otherwise known as the Amanda story) so steals from his childhood best friend.
So the second story is pretty gimmicky and makes me want to rewatch The Reservoir Dogs. But I enjoyed the trilogy in general. We have seen many authors on the List insert themselves into the story as a character, but Paul Auster might wield that technique the best.
Auster is about as experimental as he gets here, but the stories are so quick and digestible that I actually found the style very palatable. Happy to have you here Paulie.
RATING: ****-
Interesting Facts:
In 2016, Edward Einhorn adapted City of Glass as a play Off-Broadway.
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