Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel [Kindle Edition]

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In this excellent recording of Foer's second novel, Woodman artfully captures the voice of nine-year-old Oskar Schell, the precocious amateur physicist that is looking to uncover clues about his father's death on September 11. Oskar—a self-proclaimed pacifist, tambourine player and Steven Hawking fanatic—is the ideal blend of smart-aleck maturity and youthful innocence. Articulating the big words slowly and thoroughly with merely a hint of childishness, Woodman endearingly conveys the voice of the young child who is attempting desperately to sound like an adult. The parallel story lines, beautifully narrated by Ferrone and Caruso, add variety towards the imaginative and captivating plot, nonetheless they usually do not translate as seamlessly into audio format. Ferrone's wistful growl is perfect to the voice of the man who is able to don't speak, but since the listener actually gets to hear the text that this character are only able to convey by writing on a notepad, his frustrating silence is much less profound. Caruso's brilliant performance as an adoring grandmother can be noteworthy, though the meandering stream-of-consciousness kind of her and Ferrone's sections are occasionally hard to follow on audio. Although it's Oskar's poignant, laugh-out-loud narration that will make this audio production indispensable.
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Adult/High School-Oskar Schell is not your average nine-year-old. A budding inventor, he spends his time imagining wonderful creations. Actually is well liked collects random photographs for his scrapbook and sends letters to scientists. When his father dies inside World Trade Center collapse, Oskar shifts his boundless energy to a pursuit of answers. He finds an important hidden in his father's items that doesn't fit any lock in their Ny City apartment; its container is labeled "Black." Using flawless kid logic, Oskar sets out to talk to everyone in Ny City with the surname of Black. A retired journalist who keeps a card catalog with entries for anyone he's ever met is simply one of the colorful characters the boy meets. As with everything Is Illuminated (Houghton, 2002), Foer requires a dark subject and works in offbeat humor with puns and wordplay. But Extremely Loud pushes further with all the inclusion of photographs, illustrations, and mild experiments in typography reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions (Dell, 1973). The humor works as a deceptive, glitzy cover for the fairly serious tale about loss and recovery. For balance, Foer includes the subplot of Oskar's grandfather, who survived the The second world war bombing of Dresden. Even though this story is less than as evocative as Oskar's, it does carry forward and connect firmly to the rest in the novel. The two stories finally intersect in the powerful conclusion that will make even essentially the most jaded hearts fall.-Matthew L. Moffett, Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale
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