He was looking for a quiet place to die. The Brooklyn Follies Paul Auster ‘I was looking for a quiet place to die.’ I was looking for a quiet place to die. Meet Nathan Glass. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item
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But to hear Nathan tell it, he is at least at the outset of this superbly comic novel a cynical 59-year-old man who has returned to Brooklyn for only one reason: he is quietly waiting to drop dead. The Brooklyn Follies ends forty-six minutes before the attack on the World Trade Center, with Nathan Glass “happy, my friends, as happy as any man who had ever lived,” having just been released from the hospital after his second near-death experience. share. The Brooklyn Follies The Brooklyn Follies is Paul Auster's warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving and unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life. The Brooklyn follies Item Preview > remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. He is recovering from lung cancer and is looking for "a quiet place to die". He is eager to tell you all about himself. The San Francisco Chronicle January 2006. was early” “were lost forever” This text is an extract from the novel The Brooklyn Follies, written by Paul Auster and published in 2005. Someone recommended Brooklyn… I hadn’t been back in fifty-six years, and I remembered nothing. Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies 60-year-old Nathan Glass moves into a brownstone flat in the gentrified borrough of Brooklyn after his wife has left him. The dark premise of Paul Auster's The Brooklyn Follies belies the humor and surprising mirth Nathan finds upon moving back to his birthplace. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! No_Favorite. But it's in the imagining that he place really comes alive; Auster is every bit as much the bard of Brooklyn as was Whitman. I was looking for a quiet place to die. Paul Auster’s novel The Brooklyn Follies begins with a remarkably somber sentence: “I was looking for a quiet place to die,” states the narrator, Nathan Glass. 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