PAUL A. TOTH

​In Airplane Novel, the South Tower tells its story from a truly inside-out perspective.

 

​Praise for Airplane Novel:

The 9/11 Novel​​​​​

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4th Best Independent Novel of the Year

USA Today

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Toth'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 1940

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There have been a lot of books about 9/11,

but I promise you none like this.​

Midwest Book Reviewer Reviewer's Choice

 

Is Paul A. Toth's new Airplane Novel the 9/11 novel?

Perhaps. It certainly makes the short list.

We've been seeking perspective,

after all, and Toth delivers.

Shelf Unbound

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Eminently quotable—the man can certainly write a damn good sentence—and with

endearing, terribly ‘real’ characters...

decomP Magazine 

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​Toth is undeniably talented and has all the makings of a notable force in contemporary fiction.​

Bookgasm​

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Airplane Novel is, without a doubt, the most extraordinary of all books published

to date on the destruction by terrorists of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Dan Newland, international journalist for The New York Times, The London Daily Telegraph, The London Daily Express, Newsweek and more

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Paul A. Toth’s Airplane Novel retells 9/11

from the narrative point of view of the

South Tower, with continuous references

to the past, but constantly, undercutting its own narrative architecture by metafictional

and self-reflexive interventions. 

New York: A Literary History. Ross Wilson,. ed.

The Sixth Borough, Imagining New York

after 9/11, Brigit Däwes​

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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as a form of narrative retribution, a revenge against conventional perspectives that must now be reconsidered and rescinded.​​​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​​

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