Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Paperback | Pages: 326 pages

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Original Title:	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
ISBN:	0618711651 (ISBN13: 9780618711659)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Oskar Schell
Setting:	New York City, New York,2003(United States) Dresden,1945(Germany)
Literary Awards:	Prix des libraires du Québec for Lauréats hors Québec (2007), Luisterboek Award (2009)

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Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies. When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he discovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.

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Title	:	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Author	:	Jonathan Safran Foer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 326 pages
Published	:	April 4th 2006 by Mariner Books (first published April 4th 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Czech Literature. Literature. Philosophy. Classics. Novels

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On top of the already devastating wreckage left from the September eleventh attacks, Foer describes a bittersweet form of intergenerational pain. (It eventually became an unpopular albeit Oscar-nominated film [which days later I watched & was disappointed with]) this is a huge deviation from his true masterwork (for I suppose that one is more universally great and, unlike this one, less personally divisive:) Everything Is Illuminated. It is so radically different and almost as complex and

Nine year old Oskar Schell finds a key among his dead father's things and embarks on a quest to find the lock it fits. Will Oskar Schell's quest give him the answers he's looking for?Quite some time ago, I watched a fragment of the movie based on this book on a rainy day before deciding I wanted to read the book. Now that I've read it, I'm not sure it was the right choice.Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is the story of Oskar Schell, a nine year old possible genius with issues whose father

well, i'm naturally drawn to those people who are overwhelmed by existence, by people who hurt too easily; who, for them, life seems to be almost too much: for whom the unceasing cacophony of thought and memory and idea is just too painful and all the cruelty and the violence is inconceivable and the mystery of life and love and foreverness and the past and all of it is just overwhelming to the point in which one wishes one could scream so loud that it would just make it all go away, that one

Extremely Precocious and Incredibly Irritating

There are quite a few novels that you either love or hate. Not so many that you can simultaneously both love AND hate. To admire theres the high tide imaginative vitality of the writing; to irritate the relentless contrived cutesy-cutesy tugging at the heartstrings.EL&IC purports to be a novel about big bangs - 9/11, Hiroshima and Dresden - but you might say this novel is more about the consequences of over indulging feeling. Theres Oskar who misses his dad who dies on 9/11 and theres his

This was horrible. The writing was horrible. The book jumped around and around and was so hard to follow. It was like reading something written by someone who was half squirrel and half crack head. Instead of creating colorful and deep characters using words, he used punctuation. The grandfather spoke using an abundance of useless commas, the grandmother used lots of periods and Mr. Black spoke in sentences using only exclamation points. I was thankful no spoke by asking only questions. If I

Maybe it goes without saying that we write differently in letters than we do in email or text. Something about putting pen to paper makes a handwritten letter more intimate and less imposing than electronic media. We take off the tin-foil hat. Our mistakes are not made invisible by a backspace key, but crossed out with our own hand. We reveal ourselves. And letters to people we love are that much more intimate and revealing, even sentimental. We create something, a product, that you can hold in