The Brooklyn Follies National BestsellerA New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die Divorced retired estranged from his only daughter the former life insurance salesman seeks on
National BestsellerA New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity Then Glass encounters his long lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore a far cry from the brilliant academic career Tom hadNational BestsellerA New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity Then Glass encounters his long lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore a far cry from the brilliant academic career Tom had begun when Nathan saw him last Tom s boss is the colorful and charismatic Harry Brightman a.k.a Harry Dunkel once the owner of a Chicago art gallery, whom fate has also brought to the ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York Through Tom and Harry, Nathan s world gradually broadens to include a new circle of acquaintances He soon finds himself drawn into a scam involving a forged page of The Scarlet Letter, and begins to undertake his own literary venture, The Book of Human Folly, an account of every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I have committed during my long and checkered career as a man The Brooklyn Follies is Paul Auster s warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.
The Brooklyn Follies Plot summary The Brooklyn Follies contains the classic elements of a Paul Auster novel The main character is a lonely man, who has suffered an unfortunate reversal The narrative is based on sudden and randomly happening events and coincidences It is a book about survival as Paul Auster says The novel was published in Danish in May The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster Dec , The Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster The Brooklyn Follies is a novel by Paul Auster year old Nathan Glass returns to Brooklyn after his wife has left him He is recovering from lung cancer and is looking for a quiet place to die In Brooklyn he meets his nephew, Tom, whom he has not seen in several years. The Brooklyn Follies A Novel In an important scene in Paul Auster s novel, The Brooklyn Follies, Tom Wood, a major character in the book and a student of literature, tells the story of Franz Kafka and a doll During the last year of Kafka s life, he met a young girl in a park lamenting the loss of her doll. Fiction Book Review The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster The Brooklyn Follies Someone recommended Brooklyn. What he finds, though, in this ebullient novel by Brooklyn bard Auster Oracle Night , is a vital, big hearted borough brimming with great characters These include Nathan s nephew, Tom, a grad student turned spiritually questing cab driver Tom s serenely silent nine year old niece, Observer review The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster A city of dreamers In this sense, The Brooklyn Follies ticks all of the boxes, and as predictable as it is in terms of trope and foible, so, too, is it recognisable for the excellence of its writing. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster, Paperback Barnes THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES is an unabashedly romantic novel but romantic in only the dark method of tale weaving Auster can muster It is the Yin and Yang of lives intertwining, families fragmented for well motivated reasons, but then families reconstructed for equally well motivated reasons. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster Review BookPage Auster s life affirming odyssey The Brooklyn Follies is another Paul Auster masterpiece Ever since The New York Trilogy nearly years ago, Auster through dozens of books has produced increasingly dazzling, provocative writing He may remind readers of Franz Kafka, Nathaniel West or Philip Roth, but Auster as brilliant postmodern parodist The Brooklyn Follies Paul Auster Macmillan Paul Auster PAUL AUSTER is the bestselling author of Travels in the Scriptorium, Oracle Night, and Man in the Dark, among many other works.I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project Anthology, which he edited, was also a national bestseller.His work has been translated into than thirty five languages He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Reading guide for The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster The following list of questions about The Brooklyn Follies are intended as resources to aid individual readers and book groups who would like to learn about the author and this book We hope that this guide will provide you a starting place for discussion, and suggest a variety of perspectives from which you might approach The Brooklyn Follies. THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES Reading Group Choices Contemporary American fiction often focuses on the individual The Brooklyn Follies weaves a tapestry of community In the suburbs, where Nathan felt isolated, he believed his life was sad and ridiculous He comes to Brooklyn seeking solitude and yet finds kinship almost by accident.
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Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Report from the Interior, Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, the Prix M dicis tranger, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Commandeur de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres He lives in Brooklyn, New Yorkul auster