Windows on the World

by Frederic Beigbeder

Frank Wynne (Translator)

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A daring yet moving evocation of the last moments for a father and his children on top of the World Trade Centre on September 11th. 'The only way to know what took place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower, World Trade Center on September 11th 2001 is to invent it.' Weaving fact and fiction, empathy and dark humour, autobiography and intellect, Windows on the World dares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world, the image onto which we project our fears, our compassion, our anger, our incomprehension. Beigbeder is a fierce, furious, infuriating chronicler of human iniquity and human suffering Frederic Beigbeder was born in 1965 and lives in Paris. He works as a publisher, literary critic and broadcaster. NB Frederic has an acute accent on each 'e'
  • ISBN10 1401359884
  • ISBN13 9781401359881
  • Publish Date 22 March 2006 (first published 20 August 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Hyperion
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 307
  • Language English