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Typographic

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer, 2005

Photographs, blank pages, red-circled corrections, and overprinted pages interrupt the text, ending with a flip-book the reader runs backward through.

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How it’s read

Typographic
Layout, rotation, color, or spacing is part of the traversal.

Details

First published
2005
Original language
English
Medium
Print
Needs the physical object
Yes. An ebook or audiobook would lose the effect.

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