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Don DeLillo Falling Man: A Novel
Scribner 2008 1416546065 / 9781416546061 Paperback New
1416546065 From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. When DeLillo's novel Players was published in 1977, one of the main characters, Pammy, worked in the newly built World Trade Center. She felt that "the towers didn't seem permanent. They remained concepts, no less transient for all their bulk than some routine distortion of light." DeLillo's new novel begins 24 years later, with Keith Neudecker standing in a New York City street covered with dust, glass shards and blood, holding somebody else's briefcase, while that intimation of the building's mortality is realized in a sickening roar behind him. On that day, Keith, one half of a classic DeLillo well-educated married couple, returns to Lianne, from whom he'd separated, and to their young son, Justin. Keith and Lianne know it is Keith's Lazarus moment, although DeLillo reserves the bravura sequence that describes Keith's escape from the first tower--as well as the last moments of one of the hijackers, Hammad--until the end of the novel. Reconciliation for Keith and Lianne occurs in a sort of stunned unconsciousness; the two hardly engage in the teasing, ludic interchanges common to couples in other DeLillo novels. Lianne goes through a paranoid period of rage against everything Mideastern;
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Don DeLillo Libra
Viking 1988 0670823171 / 9780670823178 Hardcover/Ex-Library Fair
0670823171 Fair/Good c. 1988, Third printing, gray/black bds. w/price clipped dj., 456pp., (shelf wear, corners bumped bds.somewhat bowed, paperclip indention to first few pages, d.j. taped to bds.)
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