![]() “All I want is not to die on a day when I went unseen.” Or he makes a production out of trying on sneakers he has no intention of buying at The Athlete’s Foot, compelling the teenage clerk to regard “those decrepit things, my feet.” He answers an ad for an art class, stripping down to his “hairy, sagging knedelach” in a chilly warehouse for the benefit of life drawing students-except that it’s also for his own benefit. When he goes out to shop, he purposefully spills small change, “nickels and dimes skidding everywhere,” at the cash register. ![]() Leo lives alone, his health waning, in a dilapidated Lower East Side apartment. “If I had to bet, I’d bet on the delivery boy from the Chinese take-out.” “I often wonder who will be the last person to see me alive,” Leo wonders as Krauss reads the book’s opening chapter. Several dozen book lovers who have come to hear Nicole Krauss are making the acquaintance of the crankily irresistible Holocaust survivor Leo Gursky. ![]() ![]() The slim, 30-year-old woman behind the microphone at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, Calif., looks nothing like a wisecracking 80-year-old Polish locksmith living a threadbare retirement in New York City. ![]()
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