Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (SIGNED FIRST PRINTING)
by Foer Jonathan Safran
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 024114213X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241142134
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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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
- In Search of Lost Time (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000039
- Title
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (SIGNED FIRST PRINTING)
- Author
- Foer Jonathan Safran
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 024114213X
- ISBN 13
- 9780241142134
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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