![]() ![]() As Herself: Paul Auster's second wife Siri Hustvedt, and his son Daniel, appear as themselves. ![]() This character is the one who relayed the information of the story to the unnamed 'author' referenced in the novella. This story also includes another Paul Auster, who is a complete author avatar. As Quinn investigates the case, he loses his sense of identity as Daniel Quinn, and descends into madness. He passes himself off as Auster and accepts the case of Peter Stillman, a damaged young man whose father locked him in a darkened room with no human contact for most of his life. The first novella, City of Glass, centres around author Daniel Quinn, who recieves a call in the middle of the night in his apartment, asking for the detective Paul Auster. The New York Trilogy's three stories are postmodern Mind Screws based on the format of the standard detective novel and Film Noir, piling mysteries on mysteries and mystery of mystery itself. Well, that might be oversimplifying things a little bit. A compilation of three detective fiction novellas by Paul Auster. ![]()
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