About this title: Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals. This is the inner seam of history, a novel that traces the way the events of September 11th reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, and our perception of the world. It is beautiful, heartbreaking, and ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Date Published: 04/2007
ISBN-13:9781416546023ISBN:1416546022
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 246 p. read more
Binding: Audiobook CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
ISBN-13:9780743567183ISBN:0743567188
Description: New. 0743567188 *AUDIO CD EDITION* BRAND NEW IN THE SEALED BOX. There is a black line across the bar code. It is otherwise fine. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2007-05-15
ISBN-13:9781416546023ISBN:1416546022
Description: Like New. New York, Scribner's 2007 first edition first printing, good cover, good dust jacket price intact, tight binding, clean text. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781416546061ISBN:1416546065
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean and unmarked with light edge/cover wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 246 p. Audience: General/trade. Ships from US-NE. Support Independent Booksellers! Omahabooks offers same or next day shipping-satisfaction guaranteed. Priority, Expedited, APO, International may require additional postage-contact seller. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2007
Description: Like New. (ADVANCE READER'S EDITION) covers clean and crisp, interior is clean and bright, binding is tight, a very nice copy throughout. read more
"It took me a long time after 2001 to even want to THINK about the events that occurred on 9-11 of that year. Call it denial or anything else you care to, I just chose to avoid revisiting what I and all Americans felt that day. I have read a great deal about the Muslim religion and Iraq and Afghanistan and politics and history....I just stayed away from the actual tragedies that occurred on the day itself. So it was with some trepidation that I listened to Don DeLillo's novel. But, in retrospect, I am very glad I did.
If you have ever wondered what it was like to be in the first tower, if you ever wanted to know how it feels to be a "survivor" of this horrific event, if you ever gave any thought to just how many "other" lives were affected as a result.....these and many other questions are brilliantly delivered in Falling Man.
DeLillo sometimes makes you cry, sometimes laugh, but always think. His prose is extraordinary and the result is a book I thoroughly recommend to you....BUT, only if you are ready."
"This book was 50% good. In the past, I've pretty much avoided most current American fiction, because it generally makes me want to poke my eyes out, being that I am a 30 year old curmudgeon. I am trying to be more open-minded, though, so I thought I would give this a try.
This book immediately had a second strike against it, being not only contemporary but also about September the 11th. I'm still skeptical that anyone out there has the ability, the artistic strength to wrangle such radioactivity into art. Delillo, like I said, had 50%. The American side of the story had a quality of restraint and rigor and honesty that was admirable (at least in the first half). It was better than I expected, and there were a few passages that startled me with their eerie precision.
The half about the highjacker does not fare so well - maybe because it wasn't, in any way, a lived experience for the author. That half of the story hewed so close to doctrine about what we have come to believe about the highjackers that I felt uneasy reading it, like I was sliding down some sort of slope of approved comprehension into narrowly-bound box. It's a dangerous lulling feeling, to think that we can so neatly imagine the lives of men willing to fly planes into buildings in a scant few pages, that we can imagine their desires and motivations. Maybe a better artist would have made me believe it possible, but I didn't buy that Delillo really knew anything about it outside the standard tropes we've been fed in endless serious-minded articles."
She realized how much she hated to stand in line with a number in her fist. She hated this regimen of assigned numbers, strictly enforced, in a confined space, with nothing at the end of the process but a small white bow-tied box of pastry.
"People read poems. People I know, they read poetry to ease the shock and pain, give them a kind of space, something beautiful in language," she said, "to bring comfort or composure. I don't read poems. I read newspapers. I put my head in the pages and get angry and crazy." "There's another approach, which is to study the matter. Stand apart and think about the elements," he said. "Coldly, clearly if you're able to. Do not let it tear you down. See it, measure it." "Measure it," she said. "There's the event, there's the individual. Measure it. Let it teach you something. See it. Make yourself equal to it."
"Probably I don't know what I'm talking about," he said. "You talk, I will drink."
"Some people are lucky. They become who they are supposed to be," he said. "This did not happen to me until I met your mother. One day we started to talk and it never stopped, this conversation." "Even at the end of things." "Even when we no longer found agreeable things to say or anything at all to say. The conversation never ended." "I believe you." "From the first day."
She lived in the spirit of what is ever impending.
After a while she closed her eyes. Sleep was out there somewhere over the curve of the earth."
"Stylistically this is what I would expect from Delillo, clinical prose used to scrutinize the ((post) modern) human condition. At times, such as during the writing class or when the children searching for 'Bill Lawton' it works. I didn't find it convincing when he dealt with Keith and Lianne's relationship. Then again, I've often felt that to be in a Delillo relationship is as far apart as two people can be."
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