Newcity Presents
Jonathan Safran Foer at Darkroom

Reading from and discussing his new book,

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Monday, April 25
7:30pm

2210 W. Chicago Avenue, Chicago

Jonathan Safran Foer
Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a novel told through a 9-year old narrator who lost his father in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers.

He is the author of the bestseller Everything Is Illuminated, named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and the winner of numerous awards, including the Guardian First Book Prize, the National Jewish Book Award, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Prize. Foer was one of Rolling Stone's "People of the Year" and Esquire's "Best and Brightest." Foreign rights to his new novel have already been sold in ten countries. The film of Everything Is Illuminated, directed by Liev Schreiber and starring Elijah Wood, will be released in August 2005. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close has been optioned for film by Scott Rudin Productions in conjunction with Warner Brothers and Paramount Pictures. Foer lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Thanks to Goose Island's 312 & Pie-eyed Pizzeria

Books for sale onsite thanks to Barbara's Bookstore

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