Word: foer
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Oskar’s goal becomes discovering what the key will unlock, but that goal is irretrievably linked to his experience of the events of Sept. 11. Through Oskar’s search, spurred on by terrorism and fueled by his own character, Foer posits a post-Sept. 11 mentality, formed by the tragedy, but foraging forward in history...
...Foer situates the story in a broader history by including chapters narrated by each of Oskar’s paternal grandparents, survivors of the 1945 Dresden bombings. This creates a tension in the novel between a treatment of the terrorism as cataclysmic and unprecedented and an alignment of it with American and world history...
Everything Is Illuminated. The Manchurian Candidate star Liev Schreiber is running the whole campaign for this summer's big-screen adaptation, starring Elijah Wood, of the Ukraine-set Jonathan Safran Foer novel...
...those moments, Foer just might be as good as he's trying so hard to be. "That was the part where I felt the least self-consciousness," he says. "While I was writing it, I really felt like I had all these incredibly deep feelings and I was pushing them out the end of my pencil. This is what I want my writing to feel like...
...hugely ambitious writer, who at 28 already has two better-than-solid novels out and who is only getting better, you have to wonder what happened to the glittery, bow-tie-wearing little boy he used to be. "When I was younger, I wore it all on my sleeve," Foer says. "I think writing helped me change that because it was another way of showing myself." So, is mini-Liberace gone forever? Just for a micro-second, so that you almost miss it, the sober demeanor is gone, and Foer lets himself look a little bit mischievous...