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Extremely loud & incredibly close

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterio...

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Main Author: Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2005.
Subjects:
September 11 terrorist attacks > Fiction.
Fathers and sons > Fiction.
Loss (Psychology) > Fiction.
Gifted persons > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Summary: Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. He's also a boy struggling to come to terms with his father's death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined.
Item Description: In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
"Unabridged Fiction"--Container.
"With tracks every 3 minutes for easy book marking"--Container.
Compact disc.
Physical Description: 10 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Issued also on cassette.
ISBN: 1419338919
Author Notes: Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) is an American author best known for his novels Everything Is Illuminated (2002) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005). He was born in Washington, D.C. and attended Georgetown Day School and Princeton University.

In 2000, Foer was awarded the Zoetrope: All-Story Fiction Prize and in 2007 he was included in Granta's Best of Young American Novelists.

His forthcoming nonfiction book is entitled, Eating Animals. His title Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close made The N.Y. Times Best Seller List for 2012.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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