{"product_id":"falling-man-9781416546061","title":"Falling Man","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese are lives choreographed by loss, grief, and the enormous force of history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBrave and brilliant, \u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a Netflix film, \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50643390857490,"sku":"9781416546061","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ab0bf80f-7575-4b2e-803d-c6751bd2eb1b.jpg?v=1733084523","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/falling-man-9781416546061","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}