Falling Man -- Don Delillo

<b><i>Falling Man</i> 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.</b> <p/>There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. <p/><i>Falling Man</i> 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. <p/>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 estranged 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. <p/>These are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. <p/>Brave and brilliant, <i>Falling Man</i> 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.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Don Delillo<br><b>Publisher:</b> Scribner Book Company<br><b>Published:</b> 06/03/2008<br><b>Pages:</b> 272<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.51lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.97h x 5.38w x 0.60d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781416546061<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </