The Brooklyn Revue

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The Brooklyn-Revue (original title: The Brooklyn Follies ) is a novel by the American writer Paul Auster from 2005.

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The novel begins in Brooklyn when Nathan Glass moves back to his old neighborhood after recovering from lung cancer . He has little memories of the Brooklyn where he was born, but describes it as the place where he wants to die. After his divorce, with the proceeds of which he rents a two-room apartment, he begins to rearrange his life.

Then events roll over. Nathan Glass meets his nephew ( Tom Wood ), whom he has not seen for several years, and learns about his fate, the setbacks he has suffered and his current job as a salesman at a second-hand bookshop called Brightman's Attic . So it is that he is introduced to the owner of the bookstore , Harry Brightman (formerly Dunkel). Shortly afterwards, little Lucy appears, the daughter of Tom's long-lost sister. They realize, perplexed, that the child does not speak a single word. After much back and forth, the two decide to take little Lucy to Pamela, Tom's stepmother , in Vermont .

Due to an engine failure, they cannot continue their journey and stay overnight at the Chowder Inn until the car is repaired. There Tom meets Honey, the operator's daughter. But the visit ends abruptly when a phone call takes her back to reality. Harry Brightman is dead. Nathan, who was privy to the dark machinations of Harry, decides to go back to New York City and take Lucy with him. Nathan learns of the visit of the two men who tried to persuade Harry to land the big coup with a forged manuscript of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter . Harry Brightman couldn't let himself be deterred by Nathan’s premonitions either, for which he ultimately paid the price.

After the funeral everything seems to be back to normal. But, as luck would have it, they found Brightman's will. The will states that Tom and Rufus, lovers, protégé, HIV- positive and drag queen , were favored and got everything. Until one day Honey comes back on the scene and Tom gets married. They decide to take Lucy into their home. When the mother, Tom's sister Aurora, desperately leaves a message on the answering machine , Nathan decides, with only vague clues, the imprecise whereabouts and an address , to track down Aurora and bring it back. It turns out that she is in the clutches of a fanatical religious fundamentalist who is holding her captive.

He's bringing her back to Brooklyn. Once there, she moved into Nancy Mazzucchelli's house, with whom she later began a lesbian relationship. Nathan became friends with her mother and has a harmonious relationship with her. After a meal in his apartment, he collapses. He is immediately taken to a hospital , where the breakdown is determined to be due to inflammation of the esophagus (rather than a life-threatening heart attack ). He is released on September 11, 2001 , around an hour before the first plane hits one of the towers of the World Trade Center .

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