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"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is Jonathan Safran Foer's heartrending New York novel. In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his ...Show synopsis"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" is Jonathan Safran Foer's heartrending New York novel. In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father? Moving, literary and innovative, perfect for fans of Lorrie Moore and Nicole Krauss, Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" was made into a major film starring Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock, released in 2012. Jonathan Safran Foer was born in 1977. He is the author of "Everything is Illuminated", which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book award, and "Eating Animals", and the editor of "A Convergence of Birds".Hide synopsis
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Description:Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 326 pages. Fine in...Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 326 pages. Fine in Fine dust jacket. The author's second novel. The sequel-of-sorts to his breakthrough debut, "Everything Is Illuminated", it is now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. The book's DJ has glowing blurbs by Cynthia Ozick and Salman Rushdie, and received a rave review from the late John Updike in The New Yorker Magazine. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jonathan Safran Foer's alternately elegiac and hopeful attempt to come to terms with 9/11 and its aftermath. Foer rightly trusts his senses to convey both the surface reality and the deeper truth about what we call "life". As their titles suggest, Foer's first novel is about the illuminating power of sight while its sequel is about the deafening one of sound. Sight and sound fuse in the book's ending, the harrowing fifteen-page photographic sequence (of a very loud event), which shows a man's lethal jump from one of the Twin Towers. Presented by Foer in reverse order, it begins with the last few images (the man leaping to his death and completely disappearing from the camera's view) and ends with the first (the image of the Tower just before the man leaps). It is as if Jonathan Safran Foer were "rewinding" the camera, imagining and wishing that the event never happened in the first place, "magical thinking", the way children think (the novel's protagonist is nine-year-old Oskar Schell). "Foer gambles on the power of his protagonist's voice to transform the cataclysm from raw current event to a tragedy at once visceral and mythical, willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love, and beauty" (Publishers Weekly). The basis of the fine film by Stephen Daldry (whose screenplay, particularly dialogue, is unusually faithful to the novel), with Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, and Thomas Horn. A "must-have" title for Jonathan Safran Foer collectors. This title is now highly collectible. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a prsitine beauty. A scarce copy thus. Winner of The Guardian First Book Award for "Everything Is Illuminated" in 2002. Jonathan Safran Foer was selected as one of the "20 Writers Under 40" of the decade by The New Yorker Magazine. One of the most brilliant new voices in American literature. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0618329706.
Description:Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Glued binding. Paper...Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 326 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Apr 2005 hc 1st ed 1st printing w full # line inscribed by author on title pg. in fine condition.
I rate this book a "fair +"; not quite good. Interesting concepts and overall narrative. Heart rending journey of a young boy dealing with 9/11 in some ways all alone, with only his boyish perspective to help him sort things out.
Positives: understanding perspectives, thought processes of the young ...
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I did not like this book at all. It was extremely gimmicky & incredibly disjointed. There was nothing I liked about it nor did my book club & I cannot imagine how they can make a movie about it unless they completely rewrite it.
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I honestly believe Foer to be one of the English language's next great writers. Everything is Illuminated proved that, and Extremely Loud does its part to affirm his great talent.
The story is about a young boy who's father was killed in the 9/11 attack, and his journey throughout New York City to ...
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The book is a story about Oskar Schell, a 9-year old whose father was killed on 9/11. Schell is a precocious, intelligent child and also one who has been crushed by his loss. He refers to his sadness as ?heavy boots,? and he wears them often. The story is also framed by Oskar?s grandparents ? his ...
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Jonathan Safran Foer's novel about a young boy named Oscar dealing with a loss in the wake of 9/11 explores much more than this present day event. The novel's twists and turns through Oscar's adventures around NYC and deep histories spanning generations make this book one that you can't put down. It ...
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