Synopses & Reviews
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"[T]his is a story without answers, but one that takes the worst that humanity can dish out and faces it down, unflinchingly. Sometimes slight, but always impressive: an important addition to the chorus of heavier, more lifeless tomes on the subject." Kirkus Reviews
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"[A] powerful, earnest, and in some ways playful novel that successfully blends tragedy and pathos with an irresistible exuberance for life....A brave, intriguing, emotionally resonant work; enthusiastically recommended." Library Journal
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"Frederic Beigbeder's Windows on the World is the first novel to perfectly capture the bizarre collection of emotional modes we juggled in 2002, just after the first shock of Sept. 11 was beginning to wear off. The book staggers from full-fledged storytelling to barely veiled memoir to essay to random, canny observation. It's a discombobulated, contradictory work, but it rings true in a way that other stabs at the same topic haven't." Salon.com
Synopsis
Weaving together philosophy, myth, world politics, and humor, this stunning work of literary daring is a fearless, moving, and unsettling novel set against the events of September 11.