The Brooklyn Follies
A Novel
About this book
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Nathan finds his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, working in a local bookstore - a far cry from the brilliant academic career he'd begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom's boss is the charismatic Harry Brightman, 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 set of acquaintances - not to mention a stray relative or two - and leads him to a reckoning with his past life.
Subjects
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature
- authorship
- autobiography
- cancer
- fiction
- fiction, biographical
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, psychological
- intergenerational relations
- large type books
- middle-aged men
- new york (n.y.), fiction
- patients
- politics and government
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- popular works
- recluses
- retirees
- social conditions