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Falling Man

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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.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Don
DeLillo

Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including White Noise, which was made into a Netflix film, LibraUnderworldFalling Man, and Zero K. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. (from Simon and Schuster)

Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including White Noise, which was made into a Netflix film, LibraUnderworldFalling Man, and Zero K. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. (from Simon and Schuster)

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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
Author
Publisher
Picador, Scribner

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