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Ghosts is the second novella in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, and the most accomplished. With a remarkable narrator and a deft plot (once you accept the premise, that is), Ghosts follows a pair of young men in late '40s Brooklyn as one, a private investigator, shadows the other from across Orange St in Brooklyn Heights. The history of the neighbourhood dances through the plot: Walt Whitman , Henry Ward Beecher (including an apt description of the statue commemorating his abolitionism), and the buildings themselves.