City of Glass<\/a>, which was rejected by 17 publishers before it was taken by a small press in California in 1985.<\/span><\/p>\nThe novel became the first instalment in his best-known work The New York Trilogy \u2013 three novels later combined in a single volume.<\/span><\/p>\nThe plot revolves around a mystery writer, Daniel Quinn, who, after he is mistaken for a private detective, takes on their identity and is drawn into trying to solve a huge mystery.<\/span><\/p>\nHis subsequent novels included Timbuktu, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance and Leviathan.<\/span><\/p>\nAuster wrote an impressive 34 books over the course of his career, with his last, titled Baumgartner, being released this year.<\/span><\/p>\nAuster became <\/span>widely-known for his \u201chighly stylised, quirkily riddlesome postmodernist fiction in which narrators are rarely other than unreliable and the bedrock of plot is continually shifting,\u201d the novelist Joyce Carol Oates wrote about the late writer back in 2010.<\/span><\/p>\nThe writer received a number of accolades for his work, and was awarded Spain\u2019s Prince of Asturias prize for literature in 2006, as well as the Prix M\u00e9dicis \u00c9tranger in 1993 for his novel\u00a0Leviathan.<\/p>\n
He also wrote the screenplay for the 1995 film Smoke, which starred Harvey Keitel, and co-directed the follow-up, Blue in the Face.<\/span><\/p>\nAuster is survived by his wife, <\/span>their daughter, his sister and a grandson.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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