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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Reader Score
87%
87% of readers
recommend this book
Critic Reviews
Mixed
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Nine-year-old Oskar Schell embarks 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 of an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey. With humor, tenderness, and awe, Jonathan Safran Foer confronts the traumas of our country's difficult history.
Book Details
- Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2006
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 1.00in - 0.70lb
- EAN: 9780618711659
- Recommended age: 14-UP
- Categories: • Literary• Media Tie-In• Classics
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What people are saying
Flapper. Azaro’s fairy.
I haven’t been the same since the ending of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. That book’s ending is at once the quiet and confusion of my heart. And I still really want to hug Jonathan Safran Foer.
Writer. Artist. Producer. Mover. Shaker. Dancer. Prancer. Destroyer of closed doors. Mostly ignoring the noise on social media. https://t.co/CFZaSoIrLQ
"He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father." Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. https://t.co/BVbyJHxzhF
Critics’ reviews
Praise for this book
"Energetic, inventive, and ambitious...an uplifting myth born of the sorrows of 9/11."--Boston Sunday Globe "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a miracle, a daybreak, a man on the moon. It's so impeccably imagined, so courageously executed, so everlastingly moving and fine."--Baltimore Sun "A funny, wise, deeply compassionate novel that will renew readers' faith that the right book at the right time still has the power to change the world."--O, The Oprah Magazine --
What people are saying
Flapper. Azaro’s fairy.
I haven’t been the same since the ending of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. That book’s ending is at once the quiet and confusion of my heart. And I still really want to hug Jonathan Safran Foer.
Writer. Artist. Producer. Mover. Shaker. Dancer. Prancer. Destroyer of closed doors. Mostly ignoring the noise on social media. https://t.co/CFZaSoIrLQ
"He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father." Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. https://t.co/BVbyJHxzhF