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Nine-year olds, especially precocious, Shakespeare-quoting, environmentalist-vegan ones, get irritating really fast. When the child narrator of Jonathan Safran Foer??€™s second novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, talks about farting three times in the first paragraph––and his anus twice––he seems poised to set a new low for his age demographic...
...Foer??€™s success lies in the mutual pathos he evokes between the tragedy of Sept. 11 and the worries of Oskar, growing up in its shadow. More memorable than any plot element is Oskar’s familiar embarrassment when he overhears his classmates making fun of his grandmother: “Jimmy Snyder imitated Grandma to the rest of the cast and crew. … Outside, I was cracking up too. Inside, I was wishing that she were tucked way in a portable pocket, or that she’d also had an invisibility suit?...