Paul Auster

City of Glass

Sarah Christine Gill

Sad to say because the parts about language drew me in, but time spent in annoyance. Still I want to read the rest of the trilogy. Maybe it makes up for the annoyance somehow.

Dora Tominic

Disclaimer: this is not a review.

Sad to say because the parts about language drew me in, but time spent in annoyance. Still I want to read the rest of the trilogy. Maybe it makes up for the annoyance somehow.

absolutely excellent! read for class, confusing, not my style… but it really was excellent. star ratings are silly, ignore. 

liya n

David Mazzucchelli

Paul Karasik

'It was a wrong number that started it . . .' Chosen as one of the '100 Most Important Comics of the Century', Faber is proud to publish the graphic novel City of Glass for the first time in the UK. As Art Spiegelman explains in his new introduction, David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik 'created a strange doppelganger of the original book' and 'a breakthrough work.' Paul Auster's Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.

Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld

I was a young teenager when I first read the New York Trilogy and it blew my mind. Since then it has come to symbolize a certain period in my life. For this reason I have been cautious of this comic book version of City of Glass. When a friend send me a copy I decided to give it a shot. Boy am I sorry that I waited so long. This is absolutely brilliant. The book manages to keep the essence of the story while adding abstract imagery that compliments and heightens the written word. This is a perfect example of a graphic narrative adaptation of a novel. Highly recommended.

A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a "post-existentialist private eye." An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print. Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster's groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language. "[This graphic novel] is, surprisingly, not just a worthy supplement to the novel, but a work of art that fully justifies its existence on its own terms."--The Guardian

The Graphic Novel

Jenna

This was my first graphic novel, ever. Also my first Paul Auster. A friend let me borrow this book and I had no clue what I was getting into. 

(view spoiler)[ This book made me feel confused and sad. Where did Quinn end up? Why did he go mad? What happened to Peter? What happened to Quinn's family?  (hide spoiler)]

I should probably go read something more lighthearted now.

Pranav Mutatkar

A weird surrealistic book that i don't understand but was somehow still beautiful

A late-night phone call from a stranger involves Quinn, a mystery writer, in a baffling murder case stranger than his novels

nahla mujahed

I read the trilogy (the new toke trilogy) and I can't begin to describe how perfectly well written the 3 books were, i would do anything to be able to read it again for the first time.

City of Glass

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