Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Fiction review: 'Crossers,' by Philip Caputo...upon the imagination, resisting our efforts to comprehend it. Writers as various as Jay McInerney ("The Good Life"), Jonathan Safran Foer ("Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"), John Updike ("Terrorist") and Andre Dubus III ("The Garden of... In this article: Terrorist, Iraq War, Alfred A. Knopf, Jay McInerney, and Suicide |
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Courier-Journal | 5 days ago
Novelist tackles meaty issues on food
By Erin Keane ekeane@courier-journal.com November 24, 2009 The author of the best-selling novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer spent years as an ambivalent meat eater. Now a...
In this article: Jonathan Safran Foer, McNugget, Farmers, World Health Organization, McDonald's, Centers for Disease Control, and U.N.
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washingtonpost.com | 7 days ago
Book Review: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
...described? Perhaps not. But Foer's particular brand of modernist prose, as made famous in his novels "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," does serve to bring another round of scrutiny -- and a new...
In this article: Jonathan Safran Foer, Global warming, Taco, Moral imperative, Cattle, and Dog
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Jonathan Safran Foer on 'Eating Animals'
See instructions for fixing the problem. Discussion Policy Jonathan Safran Foer, author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close will be online Thursday, Nov. 19 at 1 p.m. ET to discuss his new...
In this article: Jonathan Safran Foer, Chicken, Turkey, Egg, Antibiotic, Dominion, Growth hormone, Tofu, Thanksgiving, and Matthew Scully
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Miami Herald | November 18, 2009
A case for turkey-free feasting
There will be no Thanksgiving turkey at Jonathan Safran Foer's house. The author of the acclaimed novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close gave up eating animals in favor of writing Eating Animals (Little...
In this article: Jonathan Safran Foer, Tofu, The Miami Herald, and Nicole Krauss
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Gothamist | November 17, 2009
Jonathan Safran Foer, Author
...Foer's best-selling first novel, "Everything is Illuminated,”. Since then, among other things, he's released another novel, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," wrote a libretto for an opera, and been called everything from a...
In this article: Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Pollan, Bagel, Huffington Post, and Natalie Portman
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Review 'Eating Animals': Calling all carnivores: Do the right thing for Earth
...her way to freedom) and something else. This something else is what made critics of Foer's novels Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, fall over themselves to praise him. It is a kind of fearless...
In this article: Jonathan Safran Foer, Fast Food Nation, Foie gras, Jane Goodall, Fast Food Nation, Cancer, and Mark Caro
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BC Heights | November 15, 2009
Food For Thought With Safran Foer
...Wednesday the Boston College Bookstore hosted Jonathan Safran Foer, author of the two popular novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close to speak about his latest book, Eating Animals. Upon taking the podium,...
In this article: Jonathan Safran Foer, IP Address, Turkey, and Socrates
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The Salt Lake Tribune | November 13, 2009
Books: The luxury of not eating animals
...freedom) and something else. This something else is what made critics of Foer's fiction, the novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close "(2005), fall over themselves to praise him. It is a kind of
In this article: Jonathan Safran Foer, Irrationality, Cattle, Liberalism, Dog, God, Autism, Pythagoras, Hormone, and Thomas Aquinas
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L.A. Times - L.A. Unleashed | November 11, 2009
Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer tackles nonfiction with his latest effort, 'Eating Animals'
...Foer's latest book, "Eating Animals." Foer, known primarily as a novelist whose prior works include "Everything is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," went the nonfiction route with "Eating Animals," which tackles the...
In this article: Jonathan Safran Foer, Liberalism, Pollution, Pythagoras, Thomas Aquinas, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, Los Angeles Times, and Aristotle
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washingtonpost.com | November 03, 2009
Analyzing 9/11 literature from afar
Among the works he probes are Don DeLillo's "Falling Man," Art Spiegelman's "In the Shadow of No Towers," Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," Frederic Beigbeder's "Windows on the World," and John Updike's...
In this article: John Updike, Ghent University, Falling Man, Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo, Terrorist, and Belgium
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a 2005 novel by New York writer Jonathan Safran Foer. It was one of the first novels to deal with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
The book is an example of an emerging school of contemporary post-modernism which challenges the technical limitations of the novel to create a more immersive work. Foer, like his friend and sometime collaborator Dave Eggers, is often called a product of the information age. He brings a multimedia sensibility to this book. He uses type settings, spaces and even blank pages to give the book a visual dimension beyond the prose narrative. The photographs one narrator takes appear in the book as if inserted into a diary, and in the visual trick that made this book famous, Foer makes a flip book in the final pages out of photographer Lyle Owerko's shot of the Falling Man, making the man who had jumped from the burning World Trade Center appear as though he is falling up. The book's narrator is a nine-year-old boy named Oskar Schell. Two years before the story begins, Oskar loses his father on 9/11. In the story, Oskar discovers a key in a vase that belonged to his father. Oskar's last statement in the book, after having described what would have happened if the day of 9/11 could be reversed, is, "We would have been safe." The main character shares many stylistic similarities (and first name) with Oskar Matzerath from Gunter Grass' "the Tin Drum," most notably his constant carrying of a tambourine in place of Grass' drum.
- Name:
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Genre:
- Novel
- Written By:
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- Published By:
- Houghton Mifflin
- Length:
- 368 pp (hardback edition) & 368 pp (paperback edition)
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardback & Paperback)
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- 4 April 2005 (1st edition)
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