Summary
So yes, Falling Man is a powerfully written and compulsively creative work. The inconvenient truth: It is not DeLillo's best, and it inadvertently exposes the limitations of the "nonfiction novel" that Mailer and Capote and Wolfe unleashed on the world.
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An Airborne Literary Event?
An Airborne Literary Event? Don DeLillo sorts through the emotional dust of 9/11 in Failing Man Falling Man By Don DeLillo Scribner, 246pp., $26
BY JAMES LEDBETTERWe want our best writers to swing for the fences of history. Don't we? It's hard to think for very long about Wo...See the full content of this document
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