Windows on the World: A Novel
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基本信息·出版社：Miramax
·页码：320 页
·出版日期：2005年03月
·ISBN：1401352235
·International Standard Book Number：1401352235
·条形码：9781401352233
·EAN：9781401352233
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 A daring yet moving evocation of the last moments for a father and his children on top of the World Trade Centre on September 11th. 'The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.' Weaving fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, Windows on the World dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension. Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering Frederic Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster. NB Frederic has an acute accent on each 'e'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 作者简介 Frederic Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 媒体推荐 "...The first novel to perfectly capture the bizarre collection of emotional modes we juggled...after the first shock of Sept. 11." --
salon.com 专业书评 From Publishers Weekly "You know how it ends: everybody dies." Thus begins Beigbeder's gripping apocalyptic novel, which takes place on September 11, 2001 - the date on which New York realtor Carthew Yorston has taken his seven- and nine-year-old sons for a long-promised breakfast at the eponymous eatery atop the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Alternating with Smith's narration is the voice of Beigbeder himself - or a thinly disguised version of the French author - musing about the tragedy one year later over his own breakfast in Le Ciel de Paris, on the 56th floor of the Tour Montparnasse, the tallest building in Paris. Each chapter of the novel represents one minute on that fateful morning, from 8:30 to 10:29; nearly all are less than three pages, and several prove startling in their brevity ("In the Windows, the few remaining survivors intone Irving Berlin's 'God Bless America' (1939)"). Both men riff on everything from trivia to politics and make often poignant philosophical observations. Abundant doses of gallows humor at once add levity and underscore the drama. Yorston's overheard snatches of fatuous cell-phone conversations, for example, would be funny in another context, while the enforced exit of a cigar-smoking guest at Windows on the World "thereby proves that a cigar can save your life." Though some readers may be put off by this novel's subject matter, Beigbeder invests his narrators with such profound humanity that the book is far more than a litany of catastrophe: it is, on all levels, a stunning read.
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Review "...The first novel to perfectly capture the bizarre collection of emotional modes we juggled...after the first shock of Sept. 11." -- salon.com
