Archive for August 10th, 2009
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Editor’s Review From Publishers Weekly Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer’s bestselling Everything Is Illuminated, is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated, Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the [...]
