Falling Man
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Goldwag: Books that inspire me...of a Don DeLillo novel--into a world that had been upended by an Airborne Toxic Event. (DeLillo did eventually write his 9/11 novel--FALLING MAN). LIBRA, DeLillo's fictional reconstruction of the conspiracy(ies) to assassinate President... In this article: James Randi, Robert Anton Wilson, Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, Martin Gardner, Illuminatus!, and The Crying of Lot 49 |
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L.A. Times - Jacket Copy | November 10, 2009
Colum McCann on high-wire acts, writing and 9/11
Do you wait for time to just allow you space and distance? Or do you get in in some other way. Don Delillo did it brilliantly with the "Falling Man," literally, on the first page, the dust has already fallen. I chose to do it differently, on an...
In this article: New York, Colum McCann, The Bronx, Philippe Petit, Don DeLillo, World Trade Center, and National Book Award
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washingtonpost.com | November 03, 2009
Analyzing 9/11 literature from afar
...September 11 and the Novel," Kristiaan Versluys explores fictional portrayals of 9/11. 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...
In this article: John Updike, Ghent University, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer, Don DeLillo, Terrorist, and Belgium
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Wikipedia | October 31, 2009
Point Omega
...be DeLillo's fifteenth novel published under his own name and his first published work of fiction since his widely praised 2007 novel Falling Man. The 160 page novel is to be initially published in hardcover by DeLillo's long time publishers...
In this article: Don DeLillo and New York
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Wikipedia | October 30, 2009
Falling Man (novel)
Falling Man is the title of Don DeLillo's most recent novel, published May 15, 2007. An excerpt from the novel appeared in short story form as "Still Life" in the April 9 2007, issue of The New Yorker magazine. Falling Man concerns a...
In this article: Don DeLillo, Underworld, Alzheimer's, The New Yorker, White Noise, and Richard Drew
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Wikipedia | October 26, 2009
The Falling Man
...much like the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier." Falling Man , a novel by Don DeLillo, is about the events of 9/11. The Falling Man in the novel refers to a performance artist recreating the events of the picture seen above. DeLillo claims that...
In this article: Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Esquire, Lyle Owerko, and World Trade Center
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The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories | September 10, 2009
The 9/11 Novels Worth Reading
...now vying for your attention are fiction's eminences grises (John Updike, Terrorist; Martin Amis, The Second Plane; Don DeLillo, Falling Man), a middle-aged blockbuster (Jay McInerney, The Good Life), some of the Aughts' most noteworthy...
In this article: Tucker Carlson, Mark McKinnon, World Trade Center, New York City, Slate, Meghan O'Rourke, and Lance Armstrong
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Centre Daily Times | August 19, 2009
20 questions for concert pianist Christopher O'Riley
Whatever comes to mind: I'm getting some modern classical projects up, some Canons by Kenneth Fuchs (inspired by Don deLillo's "Falling Man"), "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" by Manuel deFalla, Beethoven's "Diabelli Variations." I also...
In this article: Heart-Shaped Box, Donald E. Westlake, Elliott Smith, Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, Mad World, Rocket Man, Michael Andrews, and Allan Guthrie
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Esquire | July 08, 2009
<i>Let the Great World Spin</i>: The First Great 9/11 Novel
...and on that score, Let the Great World Spin stands as a kind of corrective to Don DeLillo's remorselessly precise and punishing Falling Man. Call it Floating Man, for it is a book so humane in its understanding of original sin that...
In this article: Philippe Petit, Random House, Rudolf Nureyev, Don DeLillo, Man on Wire, and World Trade Center
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Independent.co.uk - Books | June 21, 2008
Falling Man, By Don DeLillo
...warned of 9/11 all along. He has now, since 2001, written two noticeably slimmer novels, featuring, it has to be said, fewer Big Ideas. Falling Man, which opens amid the dust and confusion in that moment between the collapsing of the two twin...
In this article: Don DeLillo and Las Vegas
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www.washingtonpost.com | May 12, 2007
Survivors of 9/11 struggle to live in a changed world.
...this won't bother DeLillo's many admirers, and perhaps they will be able to find virtues in Falling Man that have eluded me. Fine. But this novel never pulls the reader in, never engages the reader with the minds, hearts and lives of its...
In this article: Don DeLillo, World Trade Center, and Alzheimer's
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Falling Man is the title of Don DeLillo's most recent novel, published May 15, 2007. An excerpt from the novel appeared in short story form as "Still Life" in the April 9 2007, issue of The New Yorker magazine.
- Name:
- Falling Man
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Genre:
- Novel
- Written By:
- Don DeLillo
- Published By:
- Scribner
- Length:
- 256 (Hardback first edition)
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardback)
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- 2007
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