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May 2016
On Sale: May 3, 2016
288 pages
ISBN: 1501135392
EAN: 9781501135392
Kindle: B014PUR0OO
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Literature and Fiction | Humor
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.
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