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| Original Title: | Falling Man |
| ISBN: | 1416546022 (ISBN13: 9781416546023) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2009) |
Don DeLillo
Hardcover | Pages: 246 pages Rating: 3.21 | 12195 Users | 1324 Reviews
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| Title | : | Falling Man |
| Author | : | Don DeLillo |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Scribner hardcover edition May 2007 |
| Pages | : | Pages: 246 pages |
| Published | : | May 15th 2007 by Scribner (first published 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Literature |
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There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.Rating Out Of Books Falling Man
Ratings: 3.21 From 12195 Users | 1324 ReviewsCrit Out Of Books Falling Man
Don DeLillo's novel Falling Man has more unspecified pronouns than I care to read. It's written in that postmodern style that calls for rapidly changing vignettes; the reader bounces from one scene to another to another in just four pages, and as if to drive us mad, DeLillo hardly ever tells us who is speaking or acting. The sections begin with sentences like: "He missed the kid" or "She missed those nights with friends when you talk about everything." We're left in the dark, and the characters,Although I understood that the writing style was fractured to reflect the fractured lives of the characters, I found the style annoying and frustrating. Though the topic was interesting, the author would switch from character to character and it was hard to figure out what was going on. In the beginning I would keep going back and looking for clues in the text so I could figure out which character's story I was on, but it became so annoying that I gave up and just would read, not always knowing
This book opens with the events of 9/11 and follows the experiences of one survivor who walks out of one of the twin towers as they topple. It goes on to describe his life in the aftermath. This is a sad and serious book written in De Lillo's typical style with short, choppy sentences and quick changes from one character's perspective to anothers. Sometimes I had to reread bits to be sure who was speaking but that's De Lillo! An interesting read.
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I did not care for Falling Man. I found the characters undeveloped and the assembly indifferent. I do care a great deal for Beth Orton's recent album Sugaring Season. My listening of such has been serial, in fact, my wife remains somewhat incredulous that there is "popular" music by someone other than Regina Spektor or Yo La Tengo which entrances for me hours on end. Central Reservation was one of Ms. Orton's previous albums. It haunted the late 1990s for me, as did Delillo's Underworld. I can't
Aftermath. DeLillo's Falling Man isn't about 9/11, it's about the aftermath. It's not about initial trauma, but rather the subsequent unsettlement, an accounting of disheveled people living disheveled lives. I'm unsure how to rate this book. On one hand, the author authentically conveys the shock and psychological disassociation that accompanies catastrophe. But on the other hand, it sometimes feels contrived, something that borders on exploitation. Is DeLillo opportunistic? I don't think so, at
Struggled to truly get into this, and had it not been for my strict rule of finishing a book once I've got pass the halfway point I would have likely abandoned it. Falling man will be the last 21st century DeLillo novel I will read, and it also made me realise that Cosmopolis wasn't so bad afterall.His 14th novel is an exploration of America's recent history, namely 9/11. DeLillo deploys a set of intersecting narratives which begins on September 11, 2001, just as the Twin Towers are falling.It
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