Extremely loud & incredibly close / (Record no. 3390)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780241957615 (pbk.)
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 0241957613 (pbk.)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency W3T
Transcribing agency W3T
Language of cataloging eng
Modifying agency DISFJU
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 813.6
Item number F684
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME
Personal name Foer, Jonathan Safran,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Extremely loud & incredibly close /
Statement of responsibility, etc Jonathan Safran Foer.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication [New York] :
Name of publisher Penguin Books,
Year of publication 2011.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages 368 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist, correspondent with Stephen Hawking and Ringo Starr. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. His mission is to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11. An inspired innocent, Oskar is alternately endearing, exasperating, and hilarious as he careens from Central Park to Coney Island to Harlem on his search. Along the way he is always dreaming up inventions to keep those he loves safe from harm. What about a birdseed shirt to let you fly away? What if you could actually hear everyone's heartbeat? His goal is hopeful, but the past speaks a loud warning in stories of those who've lost loved ones before. As Oskar roams New York, he encounters a motley assortment of humanity who are all survivors in their own way. He befriends a 103-year-old war reporter, a tour guide who never leaves the Empire State Building, and lovers enraptured or scorned. Ultimately, Oskar ends his journey where it began, at his father's grave. But now he is accompanied by the silent stranger who has been renting the spare room of his grandmother's apartment. They are there to dig up his father's empty coffin.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
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Topical Term Fathers and sons
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Topical Term Loss (Psychology)
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical Term Gifted persons
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Koha item type Books
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