Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
by Foer, Jonathan Safran
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good +
- ISBN 10
- 0618711651
- ISBN 13
- 9780618711659
- Seller
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Montmorillon, France
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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 Glass Key (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 101896
- Title
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- Author
- Foer, Jonathan Safran
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later printing
- ISBN 10
- 0618711651
- ISBN 13
- 9780618711659
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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