![]() ![]() Oskar Schell, whose father died in the World Trade Center on Sept. The core problem has to do with the novel's 9-year-old hero. Foer's myriad gifts as a writer, the novel as a whole feels simultaneously contrived and improvisatory, schematic and haphazard. While it contains moments of shattering emotion and stunning virtuosity that attest to Mr. ![]() ![]() That earlier book tackled the subject of the Holocaust and the uses of memory this novel explores the nature of grief and the difficulty of human connection through the prism of 9/11 and the World War II firebombing of Dresden. With his new book, "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," 28-year-old Jonathan Safran Foer demonstrates the same high-flown ambition that brought his 2002 debut novel, "Everything Is Illuminated," bouquets of critical kudos but with decidedly more cloying results. 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' By Jonathan Safran Foer Illustrated. ![]()
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