Zero K - Softcover

DeLillo, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509822844 ISBN 13: 9781509822843

Publisher: Picador, 2017

Synopsis

Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled.

He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, who has chosen to surrender her dying body; preserving it until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return her to a life of transcendent promise.

And his healthy father, Ross, might join her.
Hypnotic and seductive, Zero K is a visionary novel about the legacies we leave, the nobility of death, and the ultimate worth of 'the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.'

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Review:

Both beautiful and profound, certainly DeLillo's best since Underworld, it forces us to confront the spectre of our own mortality, to ask deep questions of our motives in wishing to prolong our span on Earth. We finish the novel with a sudden recognition of the kindness of death, the balm of a bounded life (Observer)

DeLillo is one of urban life's most perceptive chroniclers (Independent)

DeLillo's 16th novel takes a sanguine and, as usual, perceptive look at life as it is now, beset by wars, terrorism and the catastrophic results of climate change, and balances them against the beauty and joy that can be involved in being human (Daily Mail)

Humanly moving . . . sentence by sentence brilliance of phrasing and cadence (Literary Review)

A kind of greatest-hits compilation of earlier motifs and gestures (London Review of Books)

Haunting. . . Simultaneously terrifying yet beautifully told with a real tenderness for the everyday details of life in New York. . . certainly not to be missed (GQ)

Very moving . . . his optimism is a welcome gift in this intense and deeply considered book (Prospect)

A visionary novel of ideas that remembers even visionary novels are read by living, breathing humans (Independent)

As he approaches 80, Don DeLillo is still producing work that channels America's tensions. . . supple and sad and oddly compassionate too; his most fully realised work in more than a decade (Guardian)

DeLillo's spare eloquence and the cosmic depression underlying it makes this emptiest of novels a rich reading experience (The Times)

From the Author:

Don DeLillo is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives outside of New York City. Among the most influential American writers of the past decades, DeLillo has received, among author awards, a National Book Award (White Noise, 1985), a PEN/Faulkner Award (Mao II, 1991), and an American Book Award (Underworld, 1998). DeLillo's sixteenth novel, Point Omega, was published in February, 2010.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1509822844
• ISBN 13: 9781509822843
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288