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 "ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York." 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 <I>The Scarlet Letter,</I> and begins to undertake his own literary venture, <I>The Book of Human Folly,</I> an account of "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."<BR> <BR><I>The Brooklyn Follies</I> is Paul Auster's warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life. Paul Auster http://lakenet.llcoop.org/search/X?Book+Club+in+a+Bag+Brooklyn+Follies+Paul+Auster 2009-04-13T12:20:28-04:00 Retired life insurance salesman Nathan Glass moves to Brooklyn to find anonymity and solitude through his declining years, but a chance meeting with Tom Wood, his long-lost nephew, forces him to come to terms with his past.<br><a target="_blank" onClick="javascript:urchinTracker ('/pdf/BookClubBag/BrooklynFollies'); " href="http://www.kdl.org/kdl/pdf/BookClubBag/BrooklynFollies.pdf">Download a discussion guide for this book</a> 4425 9780312426231