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    The document summarizes the first book in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy titled City of Glass. It describes how the main character, a writer named Daniel Quinn, receives a wrong number phone call intended for a detective named Paul Auster and decides to take on the case. Quinn must shadow a strange man named Paul Stillman who is supposedly being hunted by his father. The book is told from Quinn's perspective as he gets drawn deeper into a mysterious world and begins taking on the characteristics of his fictional detective persona.

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    The document summarizes the first book in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy titled City of Glass. It describes how the main character, a writer named Daniel Quinn, receives a wrong number phone call intended for a detective named Paul Auster and decides to take on the case. Quinn must shadow a strange man named Paul Stillman who is supposedly being hunted by his father. The book is told from Quinn's perspective as he gets drawn deeper into a mysterious world and begins taking on the characteristics of his fictional detective persona.

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    The document summarizes the first book in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy titled City of Glass. It describes how the main character, a writer named Daniel Quinn, receives a wrong number phone call intended for a detective named Paul Auster and decides to take on the case. Quinn must shadow a strange man named Paul Stillman who is supposedly being hunted by his father. The book is told from Quinn's perspective as he gets drawn deeper into a mysterious world and begins taking on the characteristics of his fictional detective persona.

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    The New York Trilogy

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    The document summarizes the first book in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy titled City of Glass. It describes how the main character, a writer named Daniel Quinn, receives a wrong number phone call intended for a detective named Paul Auster and decides to take on the case. Quinn must shadow a strange man named Paul Stillman who is supposedly being hunted by his father. The book is told from Quinn's perspective as he gets drawn deeper into a mysterious world and begins taking on the characteristics of his fictional detective persona.

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    The New York Trilogy

    City of Glass
    The New York Trilogy is a great book written by Paul Auster, it includes three diferente stories: City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room. The City of Glass features a story about an ordinary writer that becomes a private investigator. It all starts with a phone call. The writers name is Daniel Quinn. In the beginning was a promising writer, that wrote about

    writes crime novels under a pseudonym. Than he receives a phone call intended for a detective named Paul Auster, and accepts an assignment to shadow Paul Stillman. Quinn meets Stillman, who is a weird character very specific. Hes work as a detective is to protect Stillman because Stillman fathers is supposedly tryng to kill him.
    Quinn writes mystery novels under a pseudonym, and as ''City of Glass'' begins, with a wrong number, ''the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not,'' Quinn is drawn into an actual world of mystery where he begins to take on the characteristics of his fictional detective, Max Work. Early on, we learn what Quinn likes about writing mystery Novels and reading them: ''In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.... Since everything seen or said, even the lightest, most trivial thing, can bear a connection to the outcome of the story, nothing must be overlooked.... The center of the book shifts with each event that propels it forward.'' * * * As the story of Quinn's case develops, taking up issues as diverse as language acquisitions and biblical history, both he and the reader find themselves in a world in which the possiblities of chance seem to be dissolving. ''Nothing must be overlooked'' here either. Each detail, each small revelation msut be attended to a significant. And such attention brings ambiguity, confusion and paranoia. Is it important that Quinn's dead son has the same name as Stillman? What can it mean that ''Quinn'' rhymes with ''twin'' and ''sin''? One way in which ''the center of the book shifts'' involves the reader's discovery that the anonymous phone call Quinn receives is a call for the detective Paul Auster, the identity Quinn takes on as he enters the confusion of the case. When Mr. Auster himself enters the novel, we cannot even be sure who the author of this mystery might be. In ''City of Glass,'' Mr. Auster's prose shifts its essence in the same ways that the accumulation of significant events shifts the reader's focus. At times the prose is transparent, at others it humorously calls attention to the mystery novel genre with light parody. ''The woman was thirty... hips a touch wide, or else voluptuous, depending on your point of view; dark hair, dark eyes, and a look inthose eyes that was at once self-contained and vaguely seductive.'' Always the prose moves with grace and sureness, and the reader is moved along briskly. Even in its difficult and complex discussions, the book is a pleasure to read, full of suspense and action. ''City of Glass'' is the first volume of ''The New York Trilogy.'' Though Mr. Auster is best known for his essays (''The Invention of Solitude'') and editing (''The Radnom House Book of Twentieth-Century French Poetry''), one can only wait with much anticipation for the second installment of this strange and powerful new adventure in his art.

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