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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 es-tranged 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.
Brave and brilliant, Falling Man traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is cathartic, beautiful, heartbreaking.
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Lane Kramer
reviewed Falling Man on June 25, 2014
Falling Man
I read Falling Man just after it appeared, and liked it well enough, thinking it pictured a moment in time, here today and gone tomorrow.
But time has gone on and on since this reflection on overfed, over-anxious, over-zealous humanity facing the concept of 9/11 and its aftermath was published. And we are still falling, and falling and falling. Our children are waiting for disaster on the news as a kind of entertainment in the way the little boy watched for planes in the sky in Falling Man. We are falling, falling, waiting to crash, and we are not free - free falling - as the song goes, but bound for solid earth with our fragile bodies.
We are stuck, stuck falling.
This novel could be read as a perpetuum immobile on the human condition in the modern world...
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