There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.
Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.
First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.
These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.
Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.
The New York Times - Frank Rich
If Underworld took its cues from the kinetic cinema of Eisenstein, Falling Man, up until its remarkable final sequence, is all oblique silences and enigmatic close-ups reminiscent of the domestic anomie of the New Wave. In DeLillo s hands, this is not at all limiting or prosaic. There s a method to the Resnais-like fogginess. The cumulative effect is devastating, as DeLillo in exquisite increments lowers the reader into an inexorable rendezvous with raw terror.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Genre Fiction
- Family Life
- Genre Fiction
Publisher : Scribner
Author : Delillo, Don
Language : English
Edition : First Scribner Trade Paperback Edition
Published :2008-06-03
Number Of Pages : 272
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 1416546065
ISBN-13 : 9781416546061
Item weight : 0.57 lb
Dimensions : 0.71 in x 5.28 in x 8.03 in
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