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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
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Average Rating:  out of 324 Reviews
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $11.13
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
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Publication Date: 2005-04-04
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination.
Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.
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Customer Reviews
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Review Summary: My favorite book... |
Date: 2008-12-18 |
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Details: This book is hilarious, and yet very thought provoking. I may warn you however, it is not for everybody, and you have to have a very open mind going into it. This is honestly the best book that I have ever read. It follows many themes, the death of Oscar's father in 9/11, his grandfather, a mysterious key, all of these themes are intertwined to from a great book. |
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Review Summary: Must read, literary experience that will stick with you. |
Date: 2008-12-16 |
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Details: This is not a novel about 9/11, don't worry. When a friend gave this to me I pushed it aside not wanting to revisit such an awful subject matter as 9/11 in my leisure time. I eventually picked it up and was surprised that it didn't dwell on the hurt of that day our the months and years that followed. Instead it parallels two stories, one of our modern terror and how people deal with it and one of the bombing in Dresden and how that generation grew past it. These two stories changed my perspective on life.
Months after reading this novel I find myself thinking about it - stopped at a red light, cruising through the grocery store, sitting down to read the paper. This novel has meat. It makes you think. And it gives you a constant craving for coffee with something sweet. I may not know you or your taste in literature but I know you will find something to cherish in this novel. |
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Review Summary: Brilliant |
Date: 2008-12-12 |
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Details: How do you write a book about as difficult a subject as 9/11? Foer does this brilliantly. The approach, from the point of view of a child, is perfect and fantastically creative. |
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Review Summary: amazing book! |
Date: 2008-12-03 |
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Details: I would highly recommend this book. A friend suggested it and I am so glad she did. A great read! |
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Review Summary: Extremely Incredible |
Date: 2008-12-02 |
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Details: Hands down, one of the best pieces of modern literature. Jonathan Safran Foer reaches in, touches your heart, and then breaks it again and again. The relationship between Oscar, his grandmother, and everyone he encounters during his journey is truly touching. I was actually sad when I finished the novel because I could no longer be a part of the characters' world. Very well done. A definite 'must-read' for everyone. |
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