Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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A heart-wrenching but hilarious tale narrated by nine year old Oskar, whose father has died in the Twin Towers attack on 9/11. He has a lot of fervent interests and is currently on a mission to meet everyone in New York with the surname Black, in order to try to solve the puzzle of a mysterious key his father has left behind.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
A heart-wrenching but hilarious tale narrated by nine year old Oskar, whose father has died in the Twin Towers attack on 9/11. He has a lot of fervent interests and is currently on a mission to meet everyone in New York with the surname Black, in order to try to solve the puzzle of a mysterious key his father has left behind.
Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Eating Animals and Here I Am. He has also edited a new modern edition of the sacred Jewish Haggadah. Everything Is Illuminated won several literary prizes, including the National Jewish Book Award and the Guardian First Book Award. He edited the anthology A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell, and his stories have been published in the Paris Review, Conjunctions and the New Yorker. Jonathan Safran Foer teaches Creative Writing at New York University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780241142141 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241142148 |
| Title | Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close |
| Author | Jonathan Safran Foer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Winner of V&A Illustration Awards: Book Illustration 2005, Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2007 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |