Falling Man

Brief Description: Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals. This is the inner seam of history, a novel that traces the way the events of September 11th reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, and our perception of the world. It is beautiful, heartbreaking, and ultimately, redemptive. Review Quotes: "Haunting...elegiac...masterful." -- Gail Caldwell, "The Boston Globe"Review Quotes: "The clearest vision yet of what it felt like to live through that day." -- Malcolm Jones, "Newsweek"Review Quotes: "DeLillo is at his best...a keen imaginer...[writing] with exactitude and lyrical originality." -- James Wood, "The New Republic"Review Quotes: "Falling Man brings at least a measure of memory, tenderness and meaning to all that howling space." -- Frank Rich, "The New York Times" Book ReviewPublisher Marketing: There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. "Falling Man" 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. 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. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, "Falling Man" 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. Review Citations:

New York Times Book Review 07/13/2008 pg. 24 (EAN 9781416546061, Paperback)

New York Review of Books 06/28/2007 pg. 4 (EAN 9781602850453, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2007 pg. 297 (EAN 9780743567183, Compact Disc) - *Starred Review

Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/15/2007 pg. 103 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly 03/26/2007 pg. 66 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2007 pg. 297 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Booklist 04/01/2007 pg. 5 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Newsweek 05/14/2007 pg. 73 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Entertainment Weekly 05/18/2007 pg. 69 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Library Journal 05/15/2007 pg. 79 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

People Weekly 05/28/2007 pg. 60 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Best of Book Sense/First 5 Yrs 06/01/2007 pg. 1 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

New York Times 05/27/2007 pg. 1 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2007 pg. 28 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2007 pg. 12 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Christian Century 12/11/2008 pg. 25 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Newsweek 12/24/2007 pg. 16 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2008 pg. 9 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Christian Century 03/11/2008 pg. 45 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2008 pg. 22 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 156 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 204 (EAN 9781416546023, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  DeLillo, Don Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including "Underworld", "Falling Man, White Noise, " and "Libra". He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. "The Angel Esmeralda" was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In October 2012, DeLillo receives the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.