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The prodigiously gifted young writer Jonathan Safran Foer follows up his critically beloved bestseller EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED with the story of Oskar Schell. Oskarl, living in New York, is nine years old and precocious (his interests range from astrophysics to playing the tambourine), and all his intelligence is called into play when his father dies in the destruction of the World Trade Center. Left with an envelope containing a key and a one-word clue, Oskar tries to find out what door the key opens. In the end, he is successful, after a city-wide odyssey that also includes a mysterious man in Germany, Oskar's grandmother, a production of HAMLET at his school, and the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking. Oskar's tale is supplemented with the musings of some of the other characters, including his grandfather, whose description of his survival of the bombing of Dresden is an unforgettable chapter. Jonathan Safran Foer enriches his intriguing novel with the very postmodern device of illustrations--intriguing in themselves--that illuminate the story.
| Size | | Length: | 326 pages | | Height: | 9.0 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.1 in | | Weight: | 23.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The search for the lock that fits a mysterious key dovetails with related and parallel quests in this (literally) beautifully designed second from the gifted young author....[A] brilliant fiction...."
Kirkus (01/01/2005)
"Unafraid to show his traumatized characters' constant groping for emotional catharsis, Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty."
Publishers Weekly (01/31/2005)
"EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLEY CLOSE could easily have been a cloying, incoherent mess, but it isn't. It's really a lovely book, humane and quirky and...hard to put down."
(03/18/2006)
"It seems clear at this point that Foer has successfully graduated from being a one-off wunderkind to an accomplished and graceful writer. What he has given us is not just a remarkably clever work, but the 9/11 story we need, even if we didn't know it."
(03/20/2005)
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