num_pages: 246
description: There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years.Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes.These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.
language: English
title: Falling Man
titlecomplete: Falling Man
genres: American, New York, Historical Fiction, 21st Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 16292
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Scribner