Engrossing, postmodern detctive yarn (The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster)

Member Name: lilizard

Product:	The New York Trilogy - Paul Auster
Date:	10/08/01 (188 review reads)
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Advantages: Perplexing, Gripping, Entertaining

Disadvantages: Hardgoing in places

Paul Auster's 'New York Trilogy' contains three detective stories with a very postmodern twist. Taking elements from traditional detective fiction, Auster turns the genre on its head by leaving both reader and detective confused.

As the title clearly indicates, the three stories are set in New York and we are fed bizarre and increasingly perplexing clues as each grows more mysterious.

The first of the three stories sticks most in my mind, following a bizarre trail that seems to be leading to the tower of Babel! With doppelgangers and a character called Paul Auster I was gripped read it in one sitting!

The characters and situations are verging on the ridiculous, but the more familiar elements of the genre keep it based in reality; We want to know 'whodunnit' and what all the clues are leading to.

I've yet to find someone who hasn't enjoyed this book, it is not an altogether easy read but is definitely worth the effort!

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