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Ken Dornstein~THE BOY WHO FELL OUT OF THE SKY~SIGNED 1st Ed / 1st Pr. LIKE NEW
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition
- Signed
- Yes
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780375503597
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375503595
ISBN-13
9780375503597
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46746324
Product Key Features
Book Title
Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky : a True Story
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Terrorism, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Law Enforcement, General, Siblings
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19.6 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-042683
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Advance praise for The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky " I know that this beautiful sad story will haunt me for a long time. Ken Dornstein proves himself the truest kind of private investigator in the search for the truth about his brother, one whose goal is the ultimate mystery, the secret of a soul." - Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Secret Parts of Fortune " An original and compelling memoir of life and death. This story of the eternal battles and love affairs of brotherhood is meditative, confused, angry, and ironic. We watch Dornstein save himself amid the ashes of a terrorist attack on Americans and start a life of his own. And we are grateful for this time with him." - Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead " A heartbreaking, deeply personal memoir of a brother's quest to know the unknowable, to make sense of what doesn't make sense. Ken Dornstein has written a stunningly haunting, honest work about finding himself." - A. M. Homes, author of The Safety of Objects, Advance praise for The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky "I know that this beautiful sad story will haunt me for a long time. Ken Dornstein proves himself the truest kind of private investigator in the search for the truth about his brother, one whose goal is the ultimate mystery, the secret of a soul." Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Secret Parts of Fortune "An original and compelling memoir of life and death. This story of the eternal battles and love affairs of brotherhood is meditative, confused, angry, and ironic. We watch Dornstein save himself amid the ashes of a terrorist attack on Americans and start a life of his own. And we are grateful for this time with him." Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead "A heartbreaking, deeply personal memoir of a brother's quest to know the unknowable, to make sense of what doesn't make sense. Ken Dornstein has written a stunningly haunting, honest work about finding himself." A. M. Homes, author of The Safety of Objects From the Hardcover edition., Advance praise for The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky "I know that this beautiful sad story will haunt me for a long time. Ken Dornstein proves himself the truest kind of private investigator in the search for the truth about his brother, one whose goal is the ultimate mystery, the secret of a soul." Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Secret Parts of Fortune "An original and compelling memoir of life and death. This story of the eternal battles and love affairs of brotherhood is meditative, confused, angry, and ironic. We watch Dornstein save himself amid the ashes of a terrorist attack on Americans and start a life of his own. And we are grateful for this time with him." Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead "A heartbreaking, deeply personal memoir of a brother's quest to know the unknowable, to make sense of what doesn't make sense. Ken Dornstein has written a stunningly haunting, honest work about finding himself." A. M. Homes, author of The Safety of Objects
Dewey Decimal
973.91/092/2 B
Synopsis
In this stunning, emotionally charged memoir, Ken Dornstein interweaves the moving story of his own coming-of-age with the promise of greatness his brother never lived to fulfill. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is a heartbreaking but profoundly hopeful book about finding beauty in the midst of tragedy and making sense of it. David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, a handsome, charismatic young man on the verge of becoming an extraordinary writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 from London on the evening of December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, he died, along with the 258 other passengers and crew, when a terrorist's plastic explosive ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. David's brother, Ken, was nineteen, a college sophomore home on winter break, when the call came. All his life Ken had looked up to David, confided in him, followed where he led. David's death left Ken with a void that both crushed and consumed him. What were his brother's plans when he died? Was David really carrying home a draft of the great novel everyone knew was in him? Was he in love with the woman he was living with overseas? Ken Dornstein needed to learn the truth about his brother's life and death. In this harrowing and affecting memoir, he records what he found out. It was years before Ken could bring himself to confront the stacks of notebooks and letters David left behind, but once he began to read he was drawn deep into his brother's world. From David's early obsession with writing down his every thought to his misadventures on the streets of New York, from an unraveling love affair in Israel to a devastating childhood secret, piece by piece Ken assembles a complex, disturbing portrait of an artist struggling to find a voice for passions that often threatened to tear him apart. Then, by chance, Ken runs into David's college girlfriend on a train and everything changes once again. He starts to question his motives and his memories, and finally sets off on a complicated journey to finish the book that his brother started. As haunting as a dream, as electrifying as the day's news, The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is an incandescent and unforgettable account of one man's struggle to find inspiration in his brother's life and create a life of his own. What begins as a tragedy turns into a love story of deeply affirming power. From the Hardcover edition., In this stunning, emotionally charged memoir, Ken Dornstein interweaves the moving story of his own coming-of-age with the promise of greatness his brother never lived to fulfill. The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is a heartbreaking but profoundly hopeful book about finding beauty in the midst of tragedy and making sense of it. David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, a handsome, charismatic young man on the verge of becoming an extraordinary writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 from London on the evening of December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, he died, along with the 258 other passengers and crew, when a terrorist's plastic explosive ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. David's brother, Ken, was nineteen, a college sophomore home on winter break, when the call came. All his life Ken had looked up to David, confided in him, followed where he led. David's death left Ken with a void that both crushed and consumed him. What were his brother's plans when he died? Was David really carrying home a draft of the great novel everyone knew was in him? Was he in love with the woman he was living with overseas? Ken Dornstein needed to learn the truth about his brother's life and death. In this harrowing and affecting memoir, he records what he found out. It was years before Ken could bring himself to confront the stacks of notebooks and letters David left behind, but once he began to read he was drawn deep into his brother's world. From David's early obsession with writing down his every thought to his misadventures on the streets of New York, from an unraveling love affair in Israel to a devastating childhoodsecret, piece by piece Ken assembles a complex, disturbing portrait of an artist struggling to find a voice for passions that often threatened to tear him apart. Then, by chance, Ken runs into David's college girlfriend on a train and everything changes once again. He starts to question his motives and his memories, and finally sets off on a complicated journey to finish the book that his brother started. As haunting as a dream, as electrifying as the day's news, The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky is an incandescent and unforgettable account of one man's struggle to find inspiration in his brother's life and create a life of his own. What begins as a tragedy turns into a love story of deeply affirming power., In this stunning, emotionally charged memoir, Dornstein pens a heartbreaking but profoundly hopeful book about finding beauty in the midst of tragedy. Dornstein weaves his own coming-of-age story with that of his brother David, who was killed in the 1988 crash of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.
LC Classification Number
HV6431.D665 2006
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