The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our timeâ€”an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation

Zero K: A Novel

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our timeâ€”an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.

Jeffrey Lockhartâ€™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 â€œan uncertain farewellâ€ to her as she surrenders her body.

â€œWe are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isnâ€™t it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?â€

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 bookâ€™s narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing â€œthe mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.â€

Don DeLilloâ€™s seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant new novel weighs the darkness of the worldâ€”terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plagueâ€”against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, â€œthe intimate touch of earth and sun.â€

Zero K is glorious.
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-05-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501135392

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-05-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501135392

Zero K: A Novel

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