Zero K
Don Delillo
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New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time--an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say "an uncertain farewell" to her as she surrenders her body. "We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?" These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book's narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing "the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth." Don DeLillo's seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant new novel weighs the darkness of the world--terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague--against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, "the intimate touch of earth and sun." Zero K is glorious.
Product Details
Price
$37.95
Publisher
Center Point
Publish Date
August 01, 2016
Pages
500
Dimensions
5.7 X 1.1 X 8.6 inches | 1.2 pounds
Language
English
Type
Library Binding
EAN/UPC
9781683240549
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Nació y creció en Nueva York. Es autor de dieciséis novelas y varias obras de teatro. Ha ganado numerosos premios, como el National Book Award por Ruido de fondo (1985; Seix Barral, 2006), el International Fiction Prize por Libra (1988; Seix Barral, 2006), el PEN/Faulkner Award de Ficción por Mao II (1991; Seix Barral, 2008), la Medalla Howells por Submundo (1997; Seix Barral, 2009), el PEN/Saul Bellow Award y el Jerusalem Prize a toda su carrera y la Medalla del National Book Award por su contribución a las letras estadounidenses.