Jonathan Safran Foer Returns with 'Loud and Close' 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 Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers. Reviewer Alan Cheuse teaches writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.

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March 28, 200512:00 AM ET

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Alan Cheuse

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 Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center towers. Reviewer Alan Cheuse teaches writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.