Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
by Foer, Safran Jonathan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 024114213X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241142134
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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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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- Bookseller
- The Book and Record Bar (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BRB35
- Title
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- Author
- Foer, Safran Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 024114213X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241142134
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- UK
- Date Published
- 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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