000434349 000__ 03196cam\a2200361\a\4500 000434349 001__ 434349 000434349 005__ 20210513151913.0 000434349 008__ 041201s2005\\\\maua\\\\\\\\\\000\1\eng\\ 000434349 010__ $$a 2004065131 000434349 020__ $$a9780618329700 000434349 020__ $$a0618329706 000434349 020__ $$a9780547735023 (pbk.) 000434349 020__ $$a0547735022 (pbk.) 000434349 020__ $$a9780618711659 (pbk.) 000434349 020__ $$a0618711651 (pbk.) 000434349 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm57319795 000434349 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$cDLC$$dFTL$$dBAKER$$dXY4$$dNLGGC$$dYDXCP$$dBTCTA$$dGK8$$dDEBBG$$dZR1 000434349 043__ $$an-us-ny 000434349 049__ $$aISEA 000434349 05000 $$aPS3606.O38$$bE97 2005 000434349 08200 $$a813/.6$$222 000434349 1001_ $$aFoer, Jonathan Safran,$$d1977- 000434349 24510 $$aExtremely loud & incredibly close /$$cJonathan Safran Foer. 000434349 2463_ $$aExtremely loud and incredibly close 000434349 260__ $$aBoston, Mass. :$$bMariner Books,$$cc2005. 000434349 300__ $$a326 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm. 000434349 520__ $$aA new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. 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. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits 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. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin. 000434349 650_0 $$aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001$$vFiction. 000434349 650_0 $$aFathers and sons$$vFiction. 000434349 651_0 $$aNew York (N.Y.)$$vFiction. 000434349 85200 $$bgen$$hPS3606.O38$$iE97$$i2005 000434349 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004065131-d.html 000434349 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0619/2004065131-s.html 000434349 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0736/2004065131-b.html 000434349 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:434349$$pGLOBAL_SET 000434349 980__ $$aBIB 000434349 980__ $$aBOOK