Falling Man Author:Don DeLillo There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. — Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. — First there is Keith, ... more »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 cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.« less
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What can I say about this book? I don't feel right admitting that I didn't like it very much, but it was just awful, catastrophic! It was so scattered and chaotic, shifting from character to character so abruptly, I couldn't tell what was going on. Perhaps that was the point, it being a post 9/11 novel. It was a thought-provoking read, but extremely frustrating to get through.
Deals with September 11 and how it has changed the way people view their lives in this world. I found it extremely difficult to follow the shifts in narration and it took me halfway through the book before I could really get past the author's surrealistic writing style. It was worth the struggle, though, and I found the ending quite poignant.
what was this author thinking? i have no clue! this much acclaimed book left me not feeling anything , in fact i did not finish it.
i love a good way out there book but this was too far out. maybe that was the idea,but it missed me by a mile. i never knew who he was talking about with his use of pronouns and not names. life is too short to read such a convoluted book! it did not even make my 100 page limit!