false<![CDATA[The Brooklyn Follies]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178852700m/846181.jpg44633<div><div>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 <i>The Scarlet Letter,</i> and begins to undertake his own literary venture, <i>The Book of Human Folly,</i> 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."<br> <br><i>The Brooklyn Follies</i> is Paul Auster's warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.</div></div>19915772005The Brooklyn Follies: A Noveltotal:3219|5:550|4:1300|3:1012|2:285|1:72|321911628423549341falsefalseSat Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009Sun Nov 15 07:07:33 -0800 2009Mon Nov 23 12:12:33 -0800 2009
pp 248: "He was an odd, unpleasant man... with... an unnerving revulsion against small talk of any kind." I like this guy!
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"She has the story, and when a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists."
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Nathan Glass ha sobrevivido a un cáncer de pulmón y a un divorcio después de treinta y tres años de matrimonio, y ha vuelto a Brooklyn, el lugar donde nació y pasó su infancia. Quiere vivir allí lo que le queda de su «ridícula vida». Hasta que enfermó era un próspero vendedor de se...more...]]>
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no reason to talk about Bush or religion (at least in the way it was mentioned); seemed strained and cliche (along with cliches of Vermont, Latino women who wo...more...]]>
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Auster's previous fiction, from Moon Palace to The Book of Illusions, earned him the reputation as a modern experimentalist. At first glance, Brooklyn Follies appears to break from this categorization. In fact, notes the San Francisco Chronicle, the novel "is a classical work of American litera...more...]]>
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20falsefalseSun Jul 19 14:14:46 -0700 2009Thu Jul 30 20:08:28 -0700 2009 I have so many problems with the plot of this book. There is absolutely no reason for the Vermont trip that supposedly changes everyone lives forever. None...more...]]>
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but die. He discovers a much-liked nephew is now living in the same neig...more...]]>
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