The Brooklyn follies
By: Paul Auster
Publisher: Faber; FABER & FABER INC *; Faber and Faber Limited; Faber & Faber
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780571229376; 9780571224982; 9780571224975
Subjects: Politics and government; Patients; Cancer; Social conditions; Recluses; Fiction
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.