Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Foer, Jonathan Safran
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0618329706
- ISBN 13
- 9780618329700
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Synopsis
Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, detective, vegan, and collector of butterflies.When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of a key he disovers in his father's closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through the five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Colewood Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1019884
- Title
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- Author
- Foer, Jonathan Safran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0618329706
- ISBN 13
- 9780618329700
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2005-04-04
- X weight
- 24 lbs
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- Tail
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