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OHMYGOODNESSYESJONATHAN SAFRAN FOER | NEW NOVEL | 2014
Simon Prosser, Publishing Director of Hamish Hamilton, has acquired British and Commonwealth rights for Jonathan Safran Foer’s third novel, Escape from Children’s Hospital, the follow-up to the internationally-acclaimed, bestselling Everything is IlluminatedandExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
A fictionalised account of a life-changing event that happened to the author as a nine-year-old - an explosion in a summer camp science class, which left his best friend without skin on his face or hands, and whose brunt the author avoided by inches and for no good reason - this is a story about the shared trauma of childhood, the potential destructiveness of storytelling, and the redemptive power of friendship. Weaving precariously between non-fiction and fiction, and existing at the intersection of different styles (suspense, memoir, imaginative storytelling), the book moves out from that moment in 1985 to the repercussions on the ever-expanding circle of those affected by it.
Explaining his ambition for the book, Jonathan Safran Foer writes: ‘What actually happened that day? What is a novel capable of? These are the two questions I have been living inside of, and I hope they will answer one another: my novel is what happened that day; and a truthful, experiential telling of that day is what the novel is capable of.’
Simon Prosser comments: ‘I couldn’t be more excited about a novel or about a writer - and I am thrilled that we are the first of Jonathan’s publishers to acquire this book.’
Picture by Sonja Kresowaty in homage toGray318
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“Love is Blind and Deaf”
Client: The New Yorker
“Adam and Eve lived together happily for a few days. Being blind, Adam never had to see the oblong, splotchy birthmark across Eve’s cheek, or her rotated incisor, or the gnawed remnants of her fingernails. And, being deaf, Eve never had to hear how weakly narcissistic Adam was, how selectively impervious to reason and unwonderfully childlike. It was good.”
Story by Jonathan Safran Foer
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/06/08/love-is-blind-and-deaf
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“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.” – Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
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“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Artwork by Roos van de Kieft
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Jonathan Safran Foer / John Steinbeck
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close“ by Jonathan Safran Foer (2005).
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close // Jonathan Safran Foer.
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Moodboard: An Aquarius Winter Book List.
- Self Help by Lorrie Moore.
- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
- The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson.
- The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke.
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