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Falling Man
ABOUT
THE BOOK
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.
Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few individuals. Theirs are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
DeLillo’s way of writing can really change your ideas on the essence of history and the historiography.
World history interwoven with the stories of the protagonists in quick images, like a technique known from video and movie making.
Author took my breath away and brought back the feelings experienced on 9/11. His description rang true and captured the complexity of emotion of the days.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
Picador,
Scribner
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