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  <default_description>New York was a labyrinth of endless steps, and no matter how far he walked, it always left him with the feeling of being lost. Each time he took a walk, he felt he was leaving himself behind. All places became equal, and on his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. This was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.

A mystery writer assumes a detective's identity and embarks on a bizzare case: he must protect a man from his criminally insane father, and as he follows the elusive criminal, he embarks on a mission that takes him to the depths of his own soul.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Something about a guy following an old guy and Humpty Dumpty being profound and then the Tower of Babel and stuff. I guess I'm too dumb. Incomprehensible. Either I have been stricken with the curse of Babel, or this is a pretentious mess. You be the judge. Also, the artwork may have been ahead of it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4278694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very intriguing exploration of the power of language to make (and unmake) the borders of our existence and the reality we experience. <br/><br/>The main character, Quinn, is a writer of detective stories. One day, he decides to take on a serious detective job. His decision to do so, prompted by ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22183176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just goes to show how good of a writer Paul Auster is. Writers like him and Cormac McCarthy get away with writing stories that I can't imagine writing, let alone understanding how to keep the momentum. The protagonist, Daniel Quinn (mistaken for Paul Auster), even in his most unbelievable moments, s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22122421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Post-modern, metafictional identity crisis. Who is this protagonist? Is he Daniel Quinn (who shares initials with Don Quixote), bereaved father and widower, or is he William Wilson, and which Wilson - Mets ballplayer or mystery writer? Does he channel the fictional detective, Max Work, or the real a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67603294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The quote that strikes me the most is “He was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little begun to fascinate him” (6) because this description shows that Quinn is beginning to accept himself. In the beginning of the chapter, Quinn seems to be a lonely person and does not like t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59627223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't like this book very much, because there was too much going on all at once.  It's about a man named Quinn who is a writer under the pseudonym William Wilson.  He considers Wilson to be sort of another person within himself, and there is also Max Work, yet another personality that he has. One...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58174114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting, spiralling twist on the detective-fiction genre, the main issue I had with <em>City of Glass</em> is that I couldn't ever really decide WHY? Not 'Why' as in 'why-are-the-characters-doing-this?', but 'why' as in 'why-does-this-book-exist?'. Yes, sometimes a ripping yarn is reason enough for a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70725636">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When we first received the New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, I thought it was going to be extremely boring, because the last book we read in New York Stories was not one of my favorites.  But to my surprise, City of Glass is really interesting.  Just above every part of this short story is intriguing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56848933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Travels in the Scriptorium, there is no tidy conclusion to Auster's City of Glass, which is on the surface a detective story. As others have mentioned thousands of times, it's a detective story in name only, using the form to pose questions about identity, the relationship between the author an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74023043">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had read this book for my New York Stories class. This was the first book i had read by this renown author, Paul Auster. In general i liked this novella the most out of all the books we read in Ms Stasavages class. The book follows a detective named Quinn who suffers from serious issues such as ob...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59520169">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book. This was one my English class books and as usual when i first got the book I was like this book is going to be boring and blah blah but as we started reading this book in class it got really interesting, I love mystery books and this book was like the next step to mystery...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44450493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[City of Glass by Paul Auster resembles a detective story. The mani character, Daniel Quinn is a writer. He used to be ambitious about his work, however, after the death of his wife and son, he isolated himself from society. One day, when he is in his apartment, his phone rings and asks for a person ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56849215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wish I'd been a bit more prepared for the challenge presented by City of Glass.  I was expecting a meatier Dashiell Hammett-type detective story, and this was more Kafka-esque with the semblance of a mystery thrown in.  It would help to have a working knowledge of NYC geography (I don't).  Also, it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49657803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is the first book from The New York Trilogy. I like the author's style of writing because, he evokes many questions through his literary elements and other writing components. This author creates a well-rounded character but yet; he evokes many questions that make the readers very curious ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59647008">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this really jarring, maybe because I've been reading nothing but ancient greek/roman history for the past two months. With the confusion of multiple identities, the breakdown and failure of language, it reminded me most of Kafka. Particularly, A Country Doctor. There was also this constant s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74651720">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At first I thought this was a crime novel that had a poorly driven plot.  I realized midway through that there were no clever antics, just one crazy man following another crazy man neither with any direction.  It is the interludes giving lessons on the Tower of Babel, Humpty Dumpty, Locke and Rousse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45222424">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Auster does not start his trilogy strongly.  Interwoven with multiple themes and lacking a central moving force, City of Glass is a metropolis of many skyscrapers with few people to occupy them.  Sparse at two-hundred pages, the novel shows how a good idea tends to sour when the author grabs too man...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14339478">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like post-modernism. I really think I do. I enjoyed the hell out of The Dead Father, I worship everything Vonnegut ever wrote, and not even Pyncheon scares me.<br/><br/>But this! What is this?<br/><br/>I had to go and read a bit of secondary literature just to see if I was too thick to get it. Her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8176215">more...</a>]]></body>
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