The Brooklyn Follies
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The Brooklyn Follies

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eBook - ePub

The Brooklyn Follies

About this book

Auster's bestselling tale of family dynamics past and present from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' ( Guardian)

'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .'

So begins Paul Auster's remarkable novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, and, indeed, from life in general.

Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood, they discover a community teeming with life and passion. When Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives, there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption.
Infused with character, mystery and humour, these lives intertwine and become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America - a crucible of broken dreams and of human folly.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2008
eBook ISBN
9780571246137
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Literature General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Overture
  6. An Unexpected Encounter
  7. Farewell to the Court
  8. Purgatory
  9. A Wall Falls
  10. Disturbing Revelations
  11. On Rascals
  12. In the Flesh
  13. The Sperm Bank Surprise
  14. The Queen of Brooklyn
  15. On the Stupidity of Men
  16. A Night of Eating and Drinking
  17. Cigarette Break
  18. On the Stupidity of Men (2)
  19. Monkey Business
  20. A Knock on the Door
  21. Riding North
  22. Our Girl, or Coke is It
  23. Dream Days at the Hotel Existence
  24. Double-Cross
  25. Counterattack
  26. Adieu
  27. Further Developments
  28. Hawthorn Street or Hawthorne Street?
  29. The Laughing Girl
  30. Flying North
  31. A New Life
  32. “Just Like Tony”
  33. Inspiration
  34. X Marks the Spot
  35. About the Author
  36. By the Same Author
  37. Copyright

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