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Article: BOOK REVIEW: 'FALLING MAN'
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CHAD ROEDEMEIER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
05-23-2007
BOOK REVIEW: 'FALLING MAN'
By CHAD ROEDEMEIER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 05-23-2007, Wednesday
Section: BETTER LIVING
Edtion: All Editions
* FALLING MAN, by Don DeLillo; Scribner, 246 pages, $26.
It's uncanny now to look back at the dust jacket for Don DeLillo's novel "Underworld," written four years before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. The Twin Towers rise up into the mist, with a church silhouetted in the foreground. A bird, now looking unmistakably like an airplane, seems to target the tower on the right.
It's not the only time DeLillo's work has seemed to foreshadow Sept. 11. A character in "Mao II," written ...