Point Omega - Brossura

DeLillo, Don

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330512390 ISBN 13: 9780330512398

Casa editrice: Picador, 2011

Riassunto

Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the world as one of the greatest writers of his generation. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, 'somewhere south of nowhere'. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Weeks go by. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits. When a devastating event follows, all the men's talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. Written in hypnotic prose, Point Omega is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible.

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Recensione:

Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels. (Sunday Telegraph)

Another formidable construction by a very distinctive writer. (Evening Standard)

A pared, intense anti-parable . . . so rigorous and so precise. (Observer)

Impossible to forget. (Sunday Times)

Descrizione del libro:

An excoriating portrayal of loss and an unnerving post-Iraq discourse mark this brilliant novel of modern America.

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0330512390
• ISBN 13: 9780330512398
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 160