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Zero K

by Don DeLillo
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FROM THE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD & THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION
"Among DeLillo's finest work" Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Don DeLillo's extraordinary new novel offers a bracing revision of our certitude about death and taxes... a mysterious, funny, and profound book" Sam Lipsyte
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."

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Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK

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  • ISBN: 9781925479539
  • File size: 267 KB
  • Release date: April 26, 2016

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  • ISBN: 9781925479539
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  • Release date: April 26, 2016
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FROM THE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD & THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION
"Among DeLillo's finest work" Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Don DeLillo's extraordinary new novel offers a bracing revision of our certitude about death and taxes... a mysterious, funny, and profound book" Sam Lipsyte
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."

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