New York Trilogy

The New York Trilogy is a series of novels or long stories by Paul Auster.

Spoiler warning: Plot or ending details follow.

The first story, City of Glass (1985), features a writer turned private detective descending into madness. It explores layers of identity and reality: Paul Auster the writer of the novel; "the author" who reports the events as reality; "Paul Auster the writer", a character in the story; "Paul Auster the detective", who may or may not exist in the novel; Daniel Quinn, a writer of detective novels who undertakes a case himself; William Wilson, his nom de plume; and Max Work, the hero of Quinn's novels. William Wilson is also the title of an Edgar Allan Poe story about doppelgängers, while Quinn shares his initials with Don Quijote.

City of Glass was adapted in 1994 into a critically acclaimed experimental graphic novel by Paul Karasik and