![]() ![]() ![]() You will see lots of hard-talking tough guys in gray suits and gray hats running around city streets socking one another in the jaw and plugging one another with bullets - plenty of action to be sure. To gain an initial feel for the novel, please go to Youtube and watch a snippet of one of those 1940s black-and-white noir films, like The Naked City. Actually, this is the 2nd of the author's The New York Trilogy, bookended by City of Glass and The Locked Room. Brown broke him in, Brown taught him the ropes, and when Brown grew old, Blue took over."īlue is a detective and it is Blue we follow on every page of this sparse (less than 100 pages) novel set in 1947 New York City. Later there is White, and then there is Black, and before the beginning there is Brown. ![]() Here are the opening few line: "First of all there is Blue. Paul Auster's Ghosts (1983) reads like the square root of a hard-boiled detective noir novel, an off-the-wall, bizarre mystery where there is no crime and the whodunit is replaced by a meditation on the nature of identity. ![]()
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