Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close.

FOER, Jonathan Safran.

Item Number: 138881

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.

First edition of this funny, uplifting novel about a boy’s journey through New York in the aftermath of September 11th. Octavo, original boards. Boldly signed by Jonathan Safran Foer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design and illustration by Gray318.

Nine-year-old Oskar Schell embarks on an urgent, secret mission that will take him through the five boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts of an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey. With humor, tenderness, and awe, Jonathan Safran Foer confronts the traumas of our country's difficult history. It is the basis for the 2011 film directed by Stephen Daldry and written by Eric Roth, starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Max von Sydow, Viola Davis, John Goodman, Jeffrey Wright, and Zoe Caldwell.