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Title	:	Falling Man
Author	:	Don DeLillo
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Scribner hardcover edition May 2007
Pages	:	Pages: 246 pages
Published	:	May 15th 2007 by Scribner (first published 2007)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Literature

Falling Man

Don DeLillo

Hardcover | Pages: 246 pages

Rating: 3.21 | 12195 Users | 1324 Reviews

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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, 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.

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Original Title:	Falling Man
ISBN:	1416546022 (ISBN13: 9781416546023)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2009)

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Ratings: 3.21 From 12195 Users | 1324 Reviews

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Never before have I returned days later to delete an entire review and rewrite it, even added a star, but that's the case with "The Falling Man." And it's because I'm still absorbing it and wrestling with it even though I finished days ago. I've never read DeLillo before and have had an unusual experience with this book in that I find the subtext more interesting than the text.While reading I was questioning some of the decisions DeLillo made, especially one that I thought was a fail, the

I did not care for Falling Man. I found the characters undeveloped and the assembly indifferent. I do care a great deal for Beth Orton's recent album Sugaring Season. My listening of such has been serial, in fact, my wife remains somewhat incredulous that there is "popular" music by someone other than Regina Spektor or Yo La Tengo which entrances for me hours on end. Central Reservation was one of Ms. Orton's previous albums. It haunted the late 1990s for me, as did Delillo's Underworld. I can't

I thought I didn't dislike this at the time, but now I realize I did. It's been two years and I barely remember it. I just get this sense of 'bleah' whenever I think about it--like that guy you fuck so he'll just go home. I don't think I liked 'Underworld' very much either.

The thing with DeLillo is the what. The conversations. The sentence fragments. The writing style.Of any list of candidates to write about the horrors of 9/11, DeLillo must have shown up. Underworld of course has the famous photo of the towers by Andre Kertesz. (Falling Man has another photo on its cover by Katie Day Weisberger. It is taken from the sky, where one sees a cyclopean vista of clouds but for the two towers peeking out, dwarfed. It's as breathtaking and emotive as the first, but with

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This novel has a great backdrop: the 9-11 and how it affected the lives of several interesting characters (even two of the 9-11 terrorists are here). But this was overwhelmed by a lot of tricks which didn't work (for me):a. sparse dialogues, words and phrases used instead of complete sentences. Instead, for example, of one character (Keith) telling his estrange wife (Lianne) that she did something stupid quarreling with a neighbor with the latter's vicious dog beside her, he would just utter:

This book opens with the events of 9/11 and follows the experiences of one survivor who walks out of one of the twin towers as they topple. It goes on to describe his life in the aftermath. This is a sad and serious book written in De Lillo's typical style with short, choppy sentences and quick changes from one character's perspective to anothers. Sometimes I had to reread bits to be sure who was speaking but that's De Lillo! An interesting read.