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Paul Auster: The Brooklyn Follies [2011] paperback Condition:New and the looming shadow of'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the