Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Name: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
ISBN: 9781436101639

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

Narrator: Richard Ferrone, Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso

Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/18/2014

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked 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 on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey.

About Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything Is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Here I Am, and the nonfiction book Eating Animals. His work has received numerous awards and been translated into thirty-six languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kim on April 01, 2009

There are books that affect me and then there are books that kill me. This falls in the latter. I cried on the couch, I cried on the bus, I cried at stoplights, I cried at work.. I cried more over this book than I did on the actual September 11th. Then I became upset that this piece of fiction could......more

Goodreads review by brian on January 01, 2022

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Goodreads review by emma on January 24, 2024

i have a soft spot for jonathan safran foer. this is true even though chances seem high that he is quite pretentious (shoutout to that natalie portman email correspondence, cringe both in content and in the fact that he thought they were in love because of it and left his poor wife (if she has a gofu......more

Goodreads review by Baba on February 27, 2022

One of the most wonderful and thought provoking legacy of 9-11 books that I've read. The book starts not long after 9-11, when/where the father of the 9 year old narrator Oskar was killed. Events come to pass in which he finds a key, a key that sets him off on an investigation all over New York, wit......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on March 14, 2013

Extremely Loud and Incredbily Close: Jonathan Foer's novel of love, loss, and memory There are events that leave an indelible stamp on us for a great portion of our lives. This happens from generation to generation. Ask those living at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor where they were and what th......more