The New York Trilogy consists of three interconnected novellas: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room. In the first story, a crime novelist named Quinn receives a phone call meant for a private investigator. He assumes this false identity to follow an elderly man who was imprisoned by his father for years. As the narratives progress, detectives and writers become obsessed with their targets, leading to a total collapse of their personal lives. Characters lose their grip on reality while monitoring empty apartments or filling notebooks with observations that never lead to a resolution.
This book serves readers interested in the intersection of hardboiled detective fiction and linguistic philosophy. It attracts those who enjoy seeing genre tropes disassembled through a focus on how language fails to describe the world. Instead of discovering a killer, the reader witnesses the mental disintegration of the investigator. You walk away with a look at how the pursuit of objective truth can result in the erasure of the self, leaving only a void where a coherent identity used to exist.
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
