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Falling Man by Don DeLillo

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Jan 01, 2000
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A Google search for “9-11 novel” comes back with 142,000 listings. Indeed, two of the five nominees for the most recent National Book Award in fiction relied on 9-11 as a point of departure. And Americans are far from the only folks drawn to the power of this emerging theme, as demonstrated by French author Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World and …

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