Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
by Safran Foer, Jonathan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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SANTA BARBARA, 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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- Bookseller
- Timothy Norlen Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013443
- Title
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- Author
- Safran Foer, Jonathan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2005
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions;
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