Extremely loud and incredibly close, Jonathan Safran Foer
The staff reading group is meeting on Friday June 8th - 4.30 in the Masters' Library. Some reviews of this book, which is bound to divide opinion as it has divided the critics:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,1494641,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1498126,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/06/05/bofoe05.xml
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article526274.ece
Interview with Jonathan Safran Foer:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1488795,00.html
Haven't read it? Try the digested read...
http://books.guardian.co.uk/digestedread/story/0,6550,1505170,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,,1494641,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1498126,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/06/05/bofoe05.xml
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article526274.ece
Interview with Jonathan Safran Foer:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1488795,00.html
Haven't read it? Try the digested read...
http://books.guardian.co.uk/digestedread/story/0,6550,1505170,00.html
posted by Marianne Bradnock at
10:01 am
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If you have time to read other novels that take 9/11 for their backdrop here is a summary.
Don DeLillo's Falling Man examines the trauma of 9/11 through the stories of the survivors.
In Benjamin Kunkel's book Indecision a young American man is left disconnnected and dazed by the world in general and America in particular after 9/11. The hero seeks release from indecision, but has to flee the USA to find it.
In Frederic Beidbeger's part-novel, part-memoir, Windows on the World an imperfect father and his 2 sons die slowly in the flaming North Tower of the World Trade Centre. The author muses on what it is about the modern US that made the impact of the attacks on the country's mindset so huge.
The Post-birthday World Lionel Shriver writes of a heroine brought up short by the attacks. She vows to quit bickering, ignore small difficulties and focus on her true love.
Claire Messud in The Emperor's Children tells of a posse of over-educated intellectuals, drifting unfettered by concrete achievements, going about their business in New York. 9/11 knocks them for six, ruining their plans, their love affairs or allowing them to start their lives all over again.
In The Good Life by Jay McInerney privileged New Yorker's are led to reassess their lives and become better people in the wake of the attacks.
Finally, the French photographer Denis Darzacq's series La Chute shot in Paris was inspired by 9/11.
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