| Just wanted to let you know that Jonathan Safran Foer’s new book is now in bookstores. There's a link, below, for you to share this with anyone you think might be interested, as well as a calendar of readings, and the novel's first chapter. |
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| EARLY REVIEWS OF EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE “Foer’s second novel is everything one hoped it would be…an exceptional achievement.” (Salman Rushdie) · “Brilliant. Foer demonstrates once again that he is one of the few contemporary writers willing to risk sentimentalism in order to address great questions of truth, love and beauty.” (Publishers Weekly) · “Devastating. [Foer is] a genuine talent who knows exactly what he wants to say and can pull it off.” (TIME) · “Arrestingly beautiful…ends with what is undoubtedly the most beautiful and heartbreaking flip book in all of literature.” (Booklist) · “Brilliant.” (Kirkus Reviews) · “It's hard to believe that such an inherently sad story could be so entertaining...Foer's excellent second novel vibrates with the details of a current tragedy but successfully explores the universal questions that trauma brings on its floodtide.” (Library Journal) · "Foer writes about emotion in a way that makes it clear he believes in it." (Elle) · "Extremely Loud is a riotous and at times courageous book…the result is another cerebral rollercoaster, one that eclipses even the rollicking Illuminated." (GQ) · "...a high plane of inventiveness and emotional urgency." (John Updike, the New Yorker) · “Funny, tender, tragic, ingeniously imaginative…has all the kick and brio of a child's wild vision and a child's wild hurt…an American original.” (Cynthia Ozick) · “…a magnificent story of grief and healing, of silence kept and silence broken, of undying hope for human connection and the courage to imagine a world without war…Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close should be required reading, in schools, in families, at the Pentagon and in the Pentagon equivalents all over the world. Jonathan Safran Foer has created an unforgettable character in Oskar, and a funny, wise, deeply compassionate novel that will renew readers faith that the right book at the right time sill has the power to change the world.” (Pam Houston, Oprah Magazine) |
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