Brooklyn Follies

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• Accident and life

  The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster 320pp, Faber, £16.99 Each generation creates its own brand of nostalgia. Those of us who came of age in the 1960s are just as happy to tuck in with a nice, cosy Paul Auster as our parents were with the latest Agath ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• A city of dreamers

  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. We have little reason to believe him. This is the same N ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  Great way to tell the story of the end of an ordinary life

  Check out what I wrote in my blog: blog: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2011/08/brooklyn-fo…

  09-27-2011: I think I as let a little down with this one. I am glad that one of my favourite artists finally came up with something I didn't exactly love. It is fluent, underst ... (continue)

  Check out what I wrote in my blog: blog: http://lunairereadings.blogspot.com/2011/08/brooklyn-fo…

  09-27-2011: I think I as let a little down with this one. I am glad that one of my favourite artists finally came up with something I didn't exactly love. It is fluent, understandable, somewhat entertaining; but it is just not as "Paul Auster" as I am used to. Besides, it has lots and lots of nasty descriptions that he could very well have avoided. It is the story of a dying man that starts a new life in Brooklin, and has all kind of mew family adventures. I was a little bit bored in many portions of the novel, but I managed to get to the end where there is a good entertaining part.

  08-05-2011: I have read the first chapter of this very addictive novel. Paul Auster has an extremely remarkable capacity to comunicate what he wants to say, and a very rich imagination. This novel is about a man who has retired after 31 years of work as a life insurance salesman, and shortly after discovering that he has cancer, his wife divorces him. He goes to Brooklin to find a place to -in his words- die peacefully. He starts telling the story of his life, and his family, and the way he does so is just something to enjoy and relax while reading.

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• Libros en Español
• Hardcover 310 Pages
• ISBN-10: 844736089X
• ISBN-13: 9788447360895
• Publisher: Anagrama
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2009
• Also available as: Paperback
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