Falling Man

by Don Delillo (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2007

  $4.20

  There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.

  Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.

  First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.

  These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.

  Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is beautiful, heartbreaking, cathartic.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.40

  Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals. This is the inner seam of history, a novel that traces the way the events of September 11 reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, and our perception of the world. It is beautiful, heartbreaking and, ultimately, redemptive.

  'DeLillo understands the capacity of words to establish a distance from things and a mastery over them' Houston Chronicle

  'One of America's smartest and most disturbing writers' The Times

  'DeLillo shapes a rhetoric for our age' Observer