Brooklyn Follies
About This Novel
Retired insurance broker Nathan Glass was terminally ill and alone. He just wanted to find a quiet place to "end this miserable and absurd life." Someone suggested Brooklyn, which was his childhood hometown. Nathan meets his long-lost nephew Tom Wood, and together with the equally lost Tom, he gets acquainted with all kinds of little people in Park Slope: a flamboyant and mysterious second-hand bookstore owner, a Jamaican drag queen, a charming restaurant waitress... Nathan gradually falls in love with the generous vitality of Brooklyn, and the sudden intrusion of Tom's niece, the quirky nine-year-old girl Lucy, completely changes the lives of the two men. In the intertwining of fate, Nathan was also able to repair his soul, face the past, and start over. The moon always rises over the Brooklyn Bridge, and the shadows of Hawthorne, Poe and Thoreau still shelter the frustrated and dreamers everywhere. Auster elegantly and affectionately depicts this town as the ultimate refuge of the human spirit.
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Official(1)Scraped 22d ago
Beautiful, a dying man is saved by love. Of course he gave love first.
Beautiful, a dying man is saved by love. Of course he gave love first.
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Official(1)Scraped 22d ago
Beautiful, a dying man is saved by love. Of course he gave love first.
Beautiful, a dying man is saved by love. Of course he gave love first.
