The New York Trilogy ~Paul Auster
–published 2006 (this edition)
–308 pages, Penguin Classics
–4/5 stars
“In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant. And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so–which amounts to the same thing. The world of the book comes to life, seething with possibilities, with secrets and contradictions. Since everything seen or said, even the slightest, most trivial thing, can bear a connection to the outcome of a story, nothing must be overlooked.” (City of Glass)
Having recently discovered Paul Auster via Travels in the Scriptorium, and recalling that I actually had purchased a copy of The New York Trilogy earlier in the year based on end-of-the-year reviews, it was easy to choose which book to move to the top of my reading pile. The New York Trilogy has an interesting premise–three novellas of a mysterious nature set in and around the city of New York that somehow overlap and tie in to one another. Knowing what Auster was capable of because of Travels, I knew it would be far less simple than this–and I was correct. There is more going on in each of these three brief stories than one can deduce in a first reading.
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