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| Rating | : | 4.74 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 033051377X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 372 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Five Stars great book. Perfectly expresses the sensibility of a writer comfortable grappling with big questions and big themes Bookreporter If our descendants are reading serious fiction hundreds of years from now, they would do well to revisit the work of Don DeLillo to seek out insights into the temper of our times. In an impressive body of work created over some 40 years, DeLillo has demonstrated an uncanny ability to tap into our collective psyche and explain us to ourselves. That talent surfaces again in his latest novel, a spare exploration of the mysteries of time and space.POINT OMEGA continues the pattern displayed in DeLillo's more recent works, interspersing subst. Michael A. Duvernois said It's another thin DeLillo, a meditation on war, solitude, and the mysterious. This is a hard book to love. It's easy to respect the brilliant author whose thick works (e.g. Underworld) and thin works (e.g. Body Artist) have been seen as prophetic markers along the dark and twisted path of American paranoia, greed, and spectacle. But the humor is very dark, and the humanity is very thin in DeLillo's recent works. And this is where I start with Point Omega. Dehumanized with few laughs on display among the small-scale movements and moments of the novel. It's a long, long way from the fleshy, earthy, body functions of
His next, Layover in Dubai, will be published in July by Knopf.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. He envisions a minimalist work in which Elster will speak in one continuous take while standing against a blank wall in Brooklyn.Anyone recalling the Bush aide who anonymously boasted in 2004 that the Administration would create our own reality to reshape the post 9-11 world will easily detect echoes of that dreamy hubris in Elster's big declarations. From there, the dynamics of human tensions and tragedy take over, laying bare the vanity of intellectual abstraction, and making the omega point loom like empty words on a horizon of deadly happenstance.Along the way, DeLillo is at his best rendering micro-moments of the inner life. Strangelove without the accent or t
Weeks go by. When a devastating event follows, all the men’s talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and connection, is thrown into question. Finley makes the case for his film. And then Elster’s daughter Jessie visits—an “otherworldly” woman from New York—who dramatically alters the dynamic of the story. Jim Finley wants to make a one-take film, Elster its single character—“Just a man against a wall.” The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. What is left is loss, fierce and incomprehensible.. Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar—an outsider—when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. He was to map the reality these men were trying to create. At the end of his service, Elster retreats to the desert, where he is joined by a filmmaker intent on documenting his experience. For two years he