EAN: 9780553387643

AUSTER PAUL THE NEW YORK TRILOGY

From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his deeply beloved
series  The New York Trilogy   a postmodern take on detective and noir fiction.   In 1985  Paul
Auster's City of Glass was adapted into a graphic novel and became an immediate cult classic 
published in over 30 editions worldwide  excerpted in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern
Fiction. B ut City of Glass was only the first novel in a series of books  Auster's acclaimed
New York Trilogy   and graphic novel readers have been waiting for years for the other two
tales to be translated into comics.  Now the wait is over.   The New York Trilogy is
post-modern literature disguised as Noir fiction where language is the prime suspect. An
interpration of detective and mystery fiction  each book explores various philosophical themes.
In City of Glass   an author of detective fiction investigates a murder and descends into
madness. Ghosts features a private eye named Blue  trailing a man named Black  for a client
called White. This too ends with the protagonist’s downfall. And in The Locked Room   another
author is experiencing writer’s block  and hopes to brake it by solving the disappearance of
his childhood friend. The second two parts of this trilogy will be appearing in this volume for
the very first time as a graphic novel.  Paul Karasik  the mastermind behind the three
adaptations  art directed all three books. City of Glass is illustrated by the award-winning
cartoonist David Mazzucchielli  the second volume  Ghosts  is illustrated by New Yorker cover
artist  Lorenzo Mattotti  and The Locked Room is adapted and drawn by Karasik himself. These
adaptations take Auster’s sophisticated wordplay and translate it into comicsplay: both
highbrow and lowbrow and immensely fun reading.

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