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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;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 &quot;ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York.&quot; 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 <em>The Scarlet Letter,</em> and begins to undertake his own literary venture, <em>The Book of Human Folly,</em> an account of &quot;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.&quot;<br/> <br/><em>The Brooklyn Follies</em> is Paul Auster's warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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