Don DeLillo
Hardcover | Pages: 246 pages Rating: 3.21 | 12195 Users | 1324 Reviews
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| Title | : | Falling Man |
| Author | : | Don DeLillo |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Scribner hardcover edition May 2007 |
| Pages | : | Pages: 246 pages |
| Published | : | May 15th 2007 by Scribner (first published 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Literature |
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There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.
First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.
These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.
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| Original Title: | Falling Man |
| ISBN: | 1416546022 (ISBN13: 9781416546023) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2009) |
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Unnecessary 9-11 book. Here's my review from the Greenwich Time last year:Review of Falling Man by Don DeLillo, published May 20, 2007On 9/11, more than 200 people reportedly jumped to their deaths from the World Trade Center buildings, and this after facing an unfathomable choice: Remain in the building and die from the fire; or jump out the window and die from the fall.On 9/12, newspapers worldwide carried an Associated Press photograph of a man in a white shirt and black pants, fallingNobody bothered to think about it at the time, but from the moment the first airplane hit the World Trade Center in September 2001, one thing was inevitable: Don DeLillo would write a novel about it. DeLillo, as has been noted before in this space, is the novelist as op-ed pundit, a '60s recidivist who simply cannot resist the temptation to turn his novels into lectures or, upon occasion, harangues. So, of course, DeLillo simply had to write about Sept. 11, even though -- as the results all too
In some ways, DeLillo seemed the perfect candidate to write a novel about 9/11. In White Noise there was the idea of terrorists flying a hijacked passenger jet into the White House. In Underworld, the construction of the twin towers lumed large in the background for a good part of the book. The cover photo itself focuses on the twin towers rising into clouds (smoke?), with a bird (a plane?) flying close by. It may be a stretch to read a connection with 9/11 into Underworld's cover (not to
I thought I didn't dislike this at the time, but now I realize I did. It's been two years and I barely remember it. I just get this sense of 'bleah' whenever I think about it--like that guy you fuck so he'll just go home. I don't think I liked 'Underworld' very much either.
This book reads like 250 pages of great poetry. The prose is beautiful, moving, and breathtaking. The tragedy and trauma is felt poetically. The complex issues are dealt with all their complexity, and the tragedy is presented with all its force and yet subtly. The book never falls into sentimentality, reducing the touchy subject of 9/11 to a simple tear-jerker, it doesn't act "inspirational". It would be very easy for this book to suck, but it doesn't. It is a masterpiece. It is a worthy ode to
The story of a dysfunctional family brought together by death and loss, Falling Man is emotional and gripping, and ultimately very inspirational.
Don DeLillo's novel Falling Man has more unspecified pronouns than I care to read. It's written in that postmodern style that calls for rapidly changing vignettes; the reader bounces from one scene to another to another in just four pages, and as if to drive us mad, DeLillo hardly ever tells us who is speaking or acting. The sections begin with sentences like: "He missed the kid" or "She missed those nights with friends when you talk about everything." We're left in the dark, and the characters,
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