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Capturing the Texas Rancher's Heart

When a father dies, the son must find himself

Mariner Books
April 2006
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Featuring: Oskar Schell
368 pages
ISBN: 0618711651
EAN: 9780618711659
Kindle: B003K16PXC
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
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EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been one of the most
discussed, acclaimed, and debated novels in recent memory.
And with good reasonas the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
noted, "Jonathan Safran Foer has done something both
masterful and absolutely necessary: he has written the first
great novel about September 11." Foer confronts a subject
few writers have dared approach, and what he discovers is
solace in that most human quality, imagination.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is on a mission to find the lock
that matches a mysterious key belonging to his father, who
died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired
innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and
hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to
Harlem on his search. As he roams the five boroughs, Oskar
encounters a motley assortment of people who are all
survivors in their own way. His journey concludes in an
emotional climax of truth, beauty, and heartbreak.

In
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Foer once again
demonstrates his ability to evoke and unravel the most
personal and complex matters of the heart.