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 tags) Want more? flag. It is his Yoknapatawpha County and then some. EMBED. Earlier in the novel, we discovered the main character, Nathan Glass, a 60 year old man in remission from cancer. The Brooklyn Follies PDF Books Download The Brooklyn Follies PDF books.Access full book title The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster, the book also available in format PDF, EPUB, and Mobi Format, to read online books or download The Brooklyn Follies full books, Click Get Books for free access, and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster Faber £16.99, pp304 'I am not normally prone to bouts of self-pity', comments Nathan Glass, the narrator of Paul Auster's latest novel, The Brooklyn Follies. The Brooklyn Follies Paul Auster Review by Tim Davis. Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies - Overture (Chap. The Brooklyn Follies is a valentine to Auster's neighborhood. 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. 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