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Extremely loud & incredibly close / Jonathan Safran Foer.
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 discovers 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.- "Goodreads"
Record details
- ISBN: 0618329706
- ISBN: 9780618711659 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780618329700
- Physical Description: 326 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2005.
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| Subject: | September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 > Fiction. Fathers and sons > Fiction. Loss (Psychology) > Fiction. Gifted persons > Fiction. New York (N.Y.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Psychological fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Gibsons Public Library | FIC FOER (Text) | 30886000165205 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
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 discovers 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.- "Goodreads"
