![]() ![]() ![]() Although Foer developed a strong imagination of self and other as a child, in the summer of 1985, he sustained second-degree burns in an “extremely loud and incredibly close” accident while attending a chemistry camp and, in the immediate after-math of “The Explosion,” witnessed the severe wounds of several friends and classmates, an experience which lead to a nervous breakdown in the years that followed, a re-shaping of the imagined world around him, and to a Foer who wanted “nothing, except to be outside of his own skin,” as he recounted to Deborah Solomon in a 2005 New York Times interview. as the middle child in a close Jewish family, the grandson of Holocaust survivors. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.’” -JSF to Deborah Solomon, in “The Rescue Artist,” NYT, February 27, 2005īorn in 1977 Jonathan Safran Foer grew up in Washington D.C. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. I write because I want to end my loneliness. ![]() Why do I write? It's not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. As a writer, I am trying to express those things that are most scary to me, because I am alone with them. Home > Publication and Reception Histories > Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ![]()
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