Zero K
A Contemporary, Novels, Science Fiction book. Isolation is not a drawback to those who understand that isolation...
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...
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Isolation is not a drawback to those who understand that isolation is the point. I Don DeLillo, Zero K // It makes me feel true to the system, knowing that unnecessary risk is integral to the code of urban pathology. Don DeLillo, Zero K // It is only me, the body in the shower, one person enclosed in plastic watching a drop of water skate down the wet curtain. The moment is there to be forgotten. This seems the ultimate point. It is a moment never to be thought of except when it is in the process of unfolding. Don DeLillo, Zero K //
I'm 1/3 into this book and I'm DNF'ing it. To be honest, I feel like this book is one long pretentious ramble on death and religion, and it's written in a fragmented language which I've never been a fan of. It's more of a meditation on life than it's an actual story, and I'm just not a fan... ...sono sopravvissuto al mio ricordoeccomi qua, con davanti l'ultimo libro di DeLillo, appena chiuso, con ancora in testa le immagini finali e con una strisciante sensazione di gelo, sono pietrificata dal significato...questo un libro il cui peso specifico molto pi di quello reale, e diviene assai pi evidente a mano a mano che viene... No word out of place.I'm a DeLillo Newbie, so don't take my word for it. This is only my seventh; and I've read little to no secondary, etc ; and nothing pre=White Noise. For the real word, you'll want to ask the DeLillo Fanatic, most competent to separate the Better from the Best, who's spent more than a European Vacation with him....
