1st Printing. Signed. 306 pages. Published in 2006. The author's twelfth novel. One of Paul Auster's finest achievements. Advance Reader's Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a one-time-only print run as a softcover original only for exclusive distribution to colleagues and friends of the publisher and author. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents, in its earliest edition format, Paul Auster's "The Brooklyn Follies". One of his most luxuriant novels, written in a realistic vein - and in a major departure from his post-Modernist, "Paul Austere" style. It is about a man who returns to Brooklyn, "a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human lives" (Publisher's blurb). Another major character is a dodgy, bisexual rare book dealer, and the novel is filled in stories and fascinating trivia about book collecting that EVERY collector and dealer should dip into. Paul Auster's "New York Trilogy" (1985) established his global reputation, even though, like Philip Roth, he was originally from Newark, New Jersey, and had a somewhat tangential, even "conceptual" relationship with NYC. Like the protagonist of his novel, he moved to Brooklyn and never looked back. His Brooklyn novels, specifically "The Brooklyn Follies" and "Sunset Park" (2010), his sixteenth novel, are worthy of being classed alongside "The New York Trilogy". A long-time smoker who later gave it up, Paul Auster died prematurely at age 77 on April 30, 2024 of lung cancer. An absolute "must-have" title for Paul Auster collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Paul Auster. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of very few such signed copies of the Advance Reader's Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are in multiple subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the iconic writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PAUL AUSTER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0805077146.

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T�tulo: THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES - Scarce Fine Copy of The Advance Reader's Edition: Signed by Paul Auster - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE
Editor: New York City, NY: Henry Holt And Company, 2006
Fecha de publicaci�n: 2005
Idioma: Ingl�s
ISBN 10: 0805077146
ISBN 13: 9780805077148
Encuadernaci�n: Soft cover
Edici�n: 1st Edition.
Estado: Fine
Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine
Firmado: Signed by Author

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From the bestselling author of Oracle Night and The Book of Illusions, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man's accidental redemption

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.
Among the many twists in the delicious plot are a scam involving a forgery of the first page of The Scarlet Letter, a disturbing revelation that takes place in a sperm bank, and an impossible, utopian dream of a rural refuge. Meanwhile, the wry and acerbic Nathan has undertaken something he calls The Book of Human Folly, in which he proposes "to set down in the simplest, clearest language possible an account of every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I had committed during my long and checkered career as a man." But life takes over instead, and Nathan's despair is swept away as he finds himself more and more implicated in the joys and sorrows of others.
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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Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions, and Timbuktu. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project anthology, which he edited, was also a national bestseller. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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