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Week 1
February 7, 2008
Stewart Center 302 & 306
John Duvall, Professor of English, is the perfect speaker for prize-winning author Don DeLillo's most recent novel, Falling Man (2007), since Duvall is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo.
Publishers synopsis: Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals. This is the inner seam of history, a novel that traces the way the events of September 11 reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, and our perception of the world. It is beautiful, heartbreaking and, ultimately, redemptive.