Title: The only thing to like about this book is...
Product review: the cover. Seriously. It is one of the worst conceived, worst written novels I have ever read. Every choice that the author made in writing this book was a poor one -- the ideas that the book attempts to communicate; the characters through which those ideas are supposed to engage readers; the narrative arrangement which alternates between the "tower of inferno" and the author's perch in a Paris highrise.... all of it is an embarrassingly lame effort to measure up against the emotional and political implications of the event itself. Even if the author didn't want to deal with the emotional and political implications of 9/11 and just wanted to use it as a dramatic backdrop (distasteful though it might be) for showcasing a variety of modern anxieties, it remains a wholly ineffective book.
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