Windows on the World

A daring moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his twosons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11. The only way to know whattook pla... » 

A daring moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his twosons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11. The only way to know whattook place in the restaurant on the 107th Floor of the North Tower World TradeCenter on September 11th 2001 is to invent it. Weaving fact and fictionempathy and dark humour autobiography and intellect Windows on the Worlddares to confront the terrifying image that has come to define our world theimage onto which we project our fears our compassion our anger ourincomprehension. Beigbeder is a fierce furious infuriating chronicler ofhuman iniquity and human suffering and this book is a controversial yetsurprisingly humane attempt to depict the most awful event of recent memory. «