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Article: A New York fairy tale; Jonathan Safran Foer uses new and old tricks to tackle the World Trade Center disaster.(Book Review)
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2005
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Byline: FRANCIS SPUFFORD
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer (Hamish Hamilton, [pounds sterling]14.99)
LIKE the old vaudeville song said, "Ya gotta have a gimmick" - particularly if you're a brilliant young novelist with a name to make.
Simplicity of means is something older writers arrive at, once their sense of their grasp on their material settles down.
Maybe it's also something they can afford to arrive at, once their reputation is made. Because when you're starting out, you want to tell the world, not just that you can do this business of plausibly representing human life going by, but that you can ...