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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Auteur(s): Jonathan Safran Foer
Narrateur(s): Jeff Woodman, Barbara Caruso, Richard Ferrone
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 Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated, wowed critics on its way to winning several literary prizes, including Book of the Year honors from the Los Angeles Times. It has been published in 24 countries and will soon be a major motion picture. Foer's talent continues to shine in this sometimes hilarious and always heartfelt follow-up.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key his father left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a masterfully imagined novel from an author Time hails as "a certified wunderkind".

©2005 Jonathan Safran Foer (P)2005 Recorded Books, LLC Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Spirituel Sincère

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  • 2005 Audie Award Nominee, Multi-Voiced Performance

"Piercing and so funny." (The Bookseller)
"[Oskar's] first-person narration of his journey is arrestingly beautiful, and readers won't soon forget him." (Booklist)
"Jonathan Safran Foer's second novel is everything one hoped it would be: ambitious, pyrotechnic, riddling, and above all...extremely moving. An exceptional achievement." (Salman Rushdie)
"Brilliant....Unafraid to show his traumatized characters' constant groping for emotional catharsis, 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)
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I did find this book a little difficult to get into but I am sure glad I persevered. Beautifully written, fantastic story, it will stay with me. I definitely recommend! The narrator's were excellent too! Really great performances.

Excellent book! Talented author and narrator's.

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I do not have enough tags to assign to this book. Rather, I would not know how to label them. It's about grief more than anything, but also about the inability to share that grief, and the unwillingness to heal. Oskar and his paternal grandparents suffer imaginable losses in their lives, and deal with them in unique ways.

I only discovered by looking for more information that the novel has graphic elements, which I missed by reading the audiobook.

Dealing with loss

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Beautiful narration.
My second overall re-read of this book. The physical book has a lot of art throughout it, so I was curious to see how this would be translated into audio and I think they did a really great job

Favourite book

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The storyline, narration, everything is amazing. I love the characters so much. Every single one. Well, maybe I don’t *love* the grandpa, but he was necessary.

A Very Good Book

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Beautifully woven storylines with excellent imagery and some memorable wording. I really, really enjoyed this book. The characters are well developed, and the story full.

Definitely recommend

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The genius of this author is extraordinary. I didn’t think it was possible but this book is ever better than “everything is illuminated”. So deep on so many levels.

Like noting I’ve ever read

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Quirky kid looking to resolve his issues about his dad dying on 9/11. Several storylines converge around tragic loss and grief.Well written and narrated.

Looking for the Answers

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I was almost afraid to listen because of the background story but after reading some reviews (and the fact it was on sale), I dove in. It made me laugh out loud, feel very sad, and was quite entertaining. I did get lost once in a while trying to piece the lives of the different characters together. Overall a good story but not one I will likely read again.

Pretty good

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This book is told primarily from the point of view of 8-year old Oskar Schell, whose father was killed in the world trade center towers on 9/11 and who, a year or so later, is still dealing with the loss and grief. He appears to be a very intelligent kid but probably somewhere on the autism spectrum (based both on his behaviour in the book, and the fact his therapist Dr. Fein suggests to his mother that he might be put in some kind of special care facility). Oskar finds a key in his father's closet and makes it his mission to find the lock it fits; the only clue he has is the name "Black" written on the envelope it was in, so he begins an epic journey to speak to every person named Black in New York city.

Interspersed with Oskar's key mission are back stories from his grandparents: his grandmother, who lives across the street now and helps care for Oskar, and his grandfather, who vanished before Oskar's father was born but whose story is told through a series of unsent letters he wrote to his son. Oskar's grandparents survived the fire bombing of Dresden and their stories unwind in parallel to Oskar's search for the lock that his key will open - which he's become convinced will somehow bring him closer to his father.

There were some moments of charm in the book and I was curious to find out what the key would eventually unlock, but there were also a lot of very annoying characters and unbelievable circumstances, not to mention a generous helping of trite melancholy. It seemed to me as if the author was trying to imitate something like "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time", where Precocious Autistic Spectrum Child Observes World, Solves Mysteries, only not as well. The plot and prose often felt rather forced, and Oskar's awkwardness - while probably supposed to illustrate his childish innocence and/or autism - was often simply silly or offputting. The complete inability of anyone in his family to communicate anything to each other was stretched past the point of believably. And the idea that his mother would seriously allow an 8 year old child to wander around New York city talking to strangers for months or sneaking out past midnight for no reason known to her is just preposterous.

Overall the book just asked me to stretch my credulity way further than I can do and still enjoy the story.

Some charm but stretches incredulity

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