Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. Second printing. 8vo. Pp. xi, 308. Illustrated wraps with French flaps; deckled fore-edges. Cover art and colour illustrations by Art Spiegelman. Introduction by Luc Sante.
Auster's signature opus, The New York Trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room) consists of three interlocking tales in which fiction and reality meet and identities meld unnervingly, while Manhattan's grid layout forms an integral part of the story. "Here is the detective story opened and examined and taken to its philosophical limits." –Don DeLillo