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Falling Man

By Don Delillo

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There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few individuals. Theirs are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous forcContinue

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few individuals. Theirs are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history. ‘These are pages of magnificent force and control, DeLillo’s genius at full pelt. Reading them, you have to remind yourself to keep breathing’ New Statesman ‘Searing, profoundly unsettling. An unforgettable novel’ Sunday Times ‘A revelatory piece of writing that will stand as a testament to DeLillo’s genius’ Times Literary Supplement ‘As fine a thing as DeLillo has ever made. There are those who have called him a cold writer; I challenge them to read the astonishing and deeply moving closing pages of Falling Man without weeping’ Scotsman 'Complex, thrilling, awesome . . . This is a tremendous novel by a genuine master’ Irish Independent

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  • The trembling air

    Falling Man by Don DeLillo 246pp, Picador, £16.99 Falling Man is Don DeLillo's 9/11 novel. Readers have been expecting it. With his understanding that it is terrorists, not artists, who now speak most directly to the collective unconscious, DeLillo - ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • As his world came tumbling down

    Falling Man by Don DeLillo Picador £16.99, pp246 To date, the most successful attempts to address in narrative the events of 11 September 2001 have been the most direct. Frederic Beigbeder's novel Windows on the World, published in 2003, imagined the ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • Regretful - that's the right definition for what I felt about this book!

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    Anmar08 said on Feb 12, 2010 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • As he had already written on the other event that shocked America ("Libra" was about the Kennedy assassination), and as he lives and was brought up in New York, it was only a matter of time for DeLillo to write about 9/11. This book is not a masterpiece, yet it shows how DeLillo's skills have consta ... (continue)

    As he had already written on the other event that shocked America ("Libra" was about the Kennedy assassination), and as he lives and was brought up in New York, it was only a matter of time for DeLillo to write about 9/11. This book is not a masterpiece, yet it shows how DeLillo's skills have constantly increased through the years. The idea of the performance artist known as "The Falling Man" is one of his best, and his description of the life of one of the survived and his wife is haunting. They are only a couple of people in an enormous crowd, and their actions and problems seem shallow and empty and banal: yet, they could not be more significant. This books show what it must really mean to live through those terrible days, the absurd quality that life had took on itself.
    I only regret the fact that DeLillo felt the need to tell about the actual facts that brought about 9/11. The brief chapters on the terrorists are the least realistic of the novel, looking like ordinary docu-fiction. It would have been far better if he had left the Towers' ruins on the background: they would have haunted the reader even more.

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    il Ciri said on May 10, 2009 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

  • Great writer, a reality slicer

    9/11, again. But what's different now? No conspiracy theories, no mentions of Bush, no reference to a war.
    Simply, 9/11 from the perspective of the humble humans. Two persons that were in the Towers, but almost no focus on the accidents. Just some little words in a vast novel. Like "planes". Or ... (continue)

    9/11, again. But what's different now? No conspiracy theories, no mentions of Bush, no reference to a war.
    Simply, 9/11 from the perspective of the humble humans. Two persons that were in the Towers, but almost no focus on the accidents. Just some little words in a vast novel. Like "planes". Or, "x days/years since the planes".
    DeLillo is a master of prose. He analyzes the Man-inside and the Man-outside, the outer, factual world in complete submission to the way the Man sees it.
    No rhetoric, just normal lives with existing problems, plus two planes that make them uncertain on the last certainties they had.

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    sturmer said on Jul 3, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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