books by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Jonathan Safran Foer
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Jonathan Safran Foer
Harper Perennial
, 2008
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man -- also named Jonathan Safran Foer -- sets out to find the woman who may or may not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war; an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior; and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who ...
The Fixer: A Novel
Bernard Malamud
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
, 2004
our modern selves
malamud is an excellent writer. he stoicly captures something that is undefined, but really reflects for me suburban life in jersey and nyc in the sixties (even though this is a book about russia). i liked this book for the humanity it places on the face of suffering ...
The Future Dictionary of America
Common Assets Action Fund
, 2005
Hopeful
This book is a positive contribution to our current state of disunion in the United States. Yes, there are entries that look back at the Shrub administration with contempt, but others look at a positive future where we overcame the myopia, nepotism, and greed of the ...
Masters of American Comics
Yale University Press
, 2005
Masters all
I recently purchased The Monster of Frankenstein, Dick Briefer's Horror Comic Epic" and was so enthralled by this golden age comic that I had to have more. "Masters of Comic Art", a reexamination of pop culture comics morphed in to fine art, is a useful overview ...
The Street of Crocodiles and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
Bruno Schulz
Penguin Classics
, 2008
If I could save one life from history --
If I could cancel one murder and save one life from history, I'd save Bruno Schulz, killed by the Nazis in 1942. If I could save one lost book, I'd save Schulz's 'Messiah'. I can't. At least there is this book of strange treasures, Schulz's collected works. Actually, ...
Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things . . .: That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending on How ...
Nick Hornby
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Neil Gaiman
, ...
McSweeney's
, 2005
sweet
The general impression is that it's a collection of stories that the authors would have like to read when they were kids. Some of them may be scary to the announced age group (4-7) but most are just sweet. For the adult many of them will remind the reader how it was to ...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
Jonathan Safran Foer
Mariner Books
, 2006
Love This Book
Though this book is very different from Foer's first one, I loved it just as much! Truly should be experienced by everyone!
Everything Is Illuminated
Jonathan Safran Foer,
Penguin
Penguin Books Ltd
, 2003
you should read this
Jonathan Safran Foer's use of the English language is beautiful. While he has a very different style of writing and it may take a little while to get into it, I don't see what there is not to like. I'm not sure which I liked better- this or his "Extremely Loud and ...
Everything Is Illuminated: A Novel
Jonathan Safran Foer
Harper Perennial
, 2003
One of the best books ever written
This is my second favorite book. The imagination and narration is simply fantastic. I have never experienced imagination as beautiful as the telling of TrachimBrod. Every chapter about this city is glowing with incredible anecdotes and interesting characters. In fact, ...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
Jonathan Safran Foer
Houghton Mifflin
, 2005
Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent history. What he discovers is solace in that most human quality, imagination. Meet Oskar Schell, an inventor, Francophile, ...
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Jonathan Safran Foer
Hamish Hamilton
, 2005
Witty, Sweet, Heartbreaking, Wise - Absolutely Brilliant!
Jonathan Safran Foer has written a novel for our times, a story so deeply affecting and wise that it has to potential to have an impact far beyond that of most novels. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a collage about the world we live in: its terrorism, its ...
The Unabridged Pocketbook of Lightning (Pocket Penguins 70's)
Jonathan Safran Foer
Penguin Books Ltd
, 2005
A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by Joseph Cornell
John Burghardt
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Mary Caponegro
, ...
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
, 2001
the blackbird whistling
I received this book from an old friend who I hadn't seen in nearly twenty years--she showed up unannounced, spent a few hours sitting in the sun, and then disappeared just as unexpectedly. I still don't know if she meant to leave the book behind, but I've decided that ...
The Diary of Petr Ginz
Atlantic Monthly Press
, 2007
Petr Ginz's Legacy lives on
In reading numerous Holocaust accounts, one is struck especially by the tragic loss of young lives, who had yet to experience the richness of life...Petr Ginz is one such soul. The Diary of Petr Ginz is a chronicle of a 14 year-old boy's day-to-day life under Nazi ...
A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell
Penguin Books Ltd
, 2007
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