Everything Is Illuminated / Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close [Hardcover]

Jonathan Safran Foer (Author)

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Publication Date: November 15, 2010

Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer’s stunning debut, tells the story of a young Jewish American’s quixotic journey into an unexpected past. Foer then turned his talent to the traumas of our recent history in his exhilarating second novel, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. This beautiful edition brings together, for the first time, two works from one of this generation’s most original writers.

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About the Author

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER is the author of the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into 36 languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 656 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Reprint edition (November 15, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0547447264
• ISBN-13: 978-0547447261
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the bestseller Everything Is Illuminated, named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and the winner of numerous awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize. Foer was one of Rolling Stone's "People of the Year" and Esquire's "Best and Brightest." Foreign rights to his new novel have already been sold in ten countries. The film of Everything Is Illuminated, directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood, will be released in August 2005. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been optioned for film by Scott Rudin Productions in conjunction with Warner Brothers and Paramount Pictures. Foer lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Touching and very compelling, January 23, 2012

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This review is from: Everything Is Illuminated / Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Hardcover)

I read this book out of order, having watched the film version of Everything is Illuminated a few years earlier. These two stories are warm, touching, sad, and often hysterically funny. One of my all-time favorites.