Airplane Novel: A 9/11 Novel

"I am a building, but I am more or less than a building. I was conceived during the 1938 World Fair exposition and born in New York City four decades later. I was raised in scaffolding. During my gestation, I grew until I saw people from the north, south, east, west; a compass of my makers in a high-rise nest of people. Later, I was the sum of destructions, as Picasso said, but I began as the sum of constructions. Soon, the first terrorists - birds - flew into me. All of this I remember or know via the IBM1670 - at the time the best computer."In Airplane Novel, the South Tower tells its story from a truly inside-out perspective.4th Best Independent Novel of the Year USA TodayAirplane Novel is, without a doubt, the most extraordinary of all books published to date on the destruction of the World Trade Center. Dan Newland, New York Times, Newsweek and moreToth's Airplane Novel is narrated from the vantage point of the South Tower, and it uses the structure of tragedy to elaborate, in five acts, on its own destruction. Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 8: American Fiction since 1940Is Paul A. Toth's new Airplane Novel the 9/11 novel? It certainly makes the short list. We've been seeking perspective, after all, and Toth delivers. Shelf UnboundConstantly undercutting its own narrative architecture by metafictional and self-reflexive interventions. Brigit Däwes, New York: A Literary History. Ross Wilson., ed.Toth's novel functions as a form of narrative retribution, a revenge against conventional perspectives that must now be reconsidered and rescinded. Robert Moscaliuc, 9/11 Imagineria: Writing, Catastrophe, Memory, and the War on Terror