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Rent The Brooklyn Follies
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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: Oct 2006
Genre: Fiction - Legal
Retail Price: $14.00
Pages: 320
Synopsis
Paul Auster, the unofficial bard of Brooklyn, returns to his home borough for this winsome tale of a resurrected life. Approaching 60, and bored with his suburban existence, Nathan Glass needs some cheering up. The book’s first lines illuminate his mental state: "I was looking for a place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn." Nathan decides to move back to the borough where he was born. There he reconnects with his nephew Tom Wood, an ex-graduate student suffering from depression who now works in a bookstore, and with Lucy, the nine-year-old daughter of Tom’s wayward sister Aurora, who joins the pair after her mother goes missing. Nathan slowly emerges from his malaise, discovering new relationships with Lucy, Tom’s boss and bookstore owner Henry Brightman, a widow named Joyce, and a waitress at the local coffee shop. At the same time, he works on his book, an autobiographical farce called THE BOOK OF HUMAN FOLLY--portions of which are worked into the narrative. Buoyed by his new community and his new experiences, Nathan--a grumpy, reclusive character at the beginning of the book--is transformed into a man who no longer looks forward to death.
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