Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin Boks
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 326 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: New York Times bestsellerA Best Book of the YearLos Angeles Times, Washington Post Book World, Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Rocky Mountain NewsEnergetic, inventive, and ambitious . . . an uplifting myth born of the sorrows of 9/11.� Boston GlobeJonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history.Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a miracle, a daybreak, a man on the moon. Its so impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving and fine.� Baltimore Sun

ISBN: 9780141025186