Point Omega: A Novel - Brossura

DeLillo, Don

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1439169969 ISBN 13: 9781439169964

Casa editrice: Scribner, 2010

Riassunto

A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld can tell it.

In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls “prophetic about twenty-first-century America” looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war.

We see Richard Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by Elster’s daughter Jessica—an “otherworldly” woman from New York. The three of them build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event turns detachment into colossal grief, and it is a human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including White Noise, which was made into a Netflix film, Libra, Underworld, Falling Man, and Zero K. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 

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In POINT OMEGA, Delillo he looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual," one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine. In this compact and powerful novel, it is finally a lingering human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Scribner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1439169969
• ISBN 13: 9781439169964
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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