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Kinderkampf.(Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close)(Book Review)
Jonathan Safran Foer Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Houghton Mifflin, 326 pages, $24.95
The plot of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close hinges on a mysterious key. Fitting: it's a roman a clef in several ways. Look at Oskar Schell, age nine, the book's precocious, insufferable Montessori casualty of a narrator. Wordsworth wrote that the child is father to the man, but in this case, "father" doesn't cut it: the child is indistinguishable from the man. Harry Siegel, who wrote a vicious review of Incredibly Close for the New York Press, noted that Oskar "writes letters to Stephen Hawking and other luminaries" and that Foer "wrote letters to Susan Sontag when he ...
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- Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature Mullins, Matthew June 22, 2009 700+ words
...s 2005 novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, was released...an overview of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close's critical reception...the reviews of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close with the reviews...
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- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin Bookwatch February 1, 2006 700+ words
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer...Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is the follow-up...other awards. In Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, a nine-year...
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- Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction Codde, Philippe September 22, 2007 700+ words
...could possibly go with a second novel. When Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close appeared in 2005, it became clear that Foer...as important subtexts. On a formal level, Extremely Loud is even more extreme in its deviation from...
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- Magazine article from: Kliatt Levitov, Francine September 1, 2005 700+ words
EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE. Jonathan Safran Foer. 2005. Various narrators. 8 tapes. 11 hrs. Recorded Books. 1-4025-3784-0. $79.75. Vinyl...
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- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine Houston, Pam April 1, 2005 700+ words
...silence broken, of undying hope for human connection and the courage to imagine a world without war. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Houghton Mifflin) should be required reading, in schools, in families, at the Pentagon, and in...
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- Magazine article from: National Review Douthat, Ross G. June 20, 2005 700+ words
CULTURAL impact, as much as political consequence, distinguishes a once-in-a-generation event from a mere disaster. The Bastille's storming sparked a century of Romanticism; the death of Franz Ferdinand birthed the Lost Generation; My Lai and Tet shaped a quarter-century of American film. Whereas
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- Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) March 8, 2006 700+ words
...has been a lot of interest and there are some serious proposals which we have been evaluating. 'I cannot confirm who the new investor is or to what tune, but it is going really well and we are incredibly close to making an announcement.'
- Poll results give Doyle 10-point lead: But Green spokesman calls race...
- Newspaper article from: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI) August 18, 2006 700+ words
...substantial lead, and to be leading everywhere in the state." Green campaign manager Mark Graul called the race for governor "incredibly close" and the poll "fantastic news." Graul said the new poll showed that Green had survived about $2 million in TV ads...
