Falling Man
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. This book 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...
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There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. This book 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780330452243 (033045224X)
Publisher: Picador Usa
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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Ummmm! Well, actual rating: 2.5 :)Difficult to rate! But in my opinion, the novel was not that interesting! I enjoyed the first chapter, the opening chapter, but then things got really slow and somehow tedious! Sometimes I felt really excited, but, unfortunately, I felt bored most of the time!There ...
"We just kept going down. Dark, light, dark again. I feel like I'm still on the stairs. I wanted my mother. If I live to be a hundred I'll still be on the stairs." Don DeLillo isn't for everyone. His often unusual dialogue, sometimes hazy shifts in point of view and time can set a casual reader o...
Like all obsessions do, this one came around by chance. The 9/11 videos had been nudging at my consciousness for a while (like every time I went on YouTube) but I avoided them because the idea of gaping at disaster disturbed me. Then I saw the image, the man against the building and I had to know. ...
Finished this finally. Took a long time. It's just the style I don't really like. It gets better towards the end, when you start to grasp what's going on with the characters. Also, Mr. DeLillo, I don't think the first line in the Qur'an is "This book is not to be doubted."I'm pretty sure it's "In th...
when DeLillo goes bad... he goes very bad?3.l6 at goodreas and deservedly so...some good characterizations of poker (where else is this 2005-2009 fad recorded in literature)some good moments about artbut otherwise... just nothing?
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