The Brooklyn follies
By: Paul Auster
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Clipper large print; Clipper large print
Publisher: W.F. Howes Ltd.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781846327834
Subjects: Cancer; Fiction; Patients; Recluses; Intergenerational relations; Large type books; Social conditions
Description: Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Nathan finds his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, working in a local bookstore - a far cry from the brilliant academic career he'd begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom's boss is the charismatic Harry Brightman, 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 set of acquaintances - not to mention a stray relative or two - and leads him to a reckoning with his past life.