Falling Man (First Edition)

Don DeLillo

ISBN 10: 1416546022 / ISBN 13: 9781416546023

Published by Scribner, New York,, 2007

About this Item

New York, Scribner, 2007. First edition. First Printing. Very fine/very fine in all respects, a pristine unread copy. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket wrapper. Shipped in a well padded box. Smoke free shop. The novel concerns the impact on one family of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. GW.

Seller Inventory # 0910-75

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Falling Man (First Edition)
• Publisher: Scribner, New York,
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416546022
• ISBN 13: 9781416546023
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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 es-tranged 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.

About the Author

Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including Underworld, Zero K, Libra, and White Noise, and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda, a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has also written plays and essays. 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, the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 2025, the Academy's Gold Medal for Fiction. DeLillo has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.