· Mr. DeLillo's haunting new novel, Zero K—his most persuasive since his astonishing masterpiece, Underworld—is a kind of bookend to White Noise (): somber and coolly futuristic, where that earlier book was satirical and darkly comic All the themes that have animated Mr. DeLillo's novels over the years are threaded through Zero K—from the seduction of technology and mass Brand: Scribner. · In “Zero K,” DeLillo’s 16th and latest novel, Jeffrey Lockhart arrives in the middle of the desert at a remote compound called the bltadwin.ru: Joshua Ferris. · Zero K, a novel that is literally about coldness, is duly benumbed and also duly brilliant in its imaginative scope (which, rather miraculously, the author manages to contain to fewer than Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.
Free download or read online Zero K pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in March 3rd , and was written by Don DeLillo. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Hardcover format. The main characters of this fiction, science fiction story are Ross Lockhart. Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£/Scribner, RRP$27, pages. Jason Cowley is editor of the New Statesman. Illustration by Dan Mitchell. Get alerts on Life Arts when a new story is. 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. Membership Advantages. Reviews. "Beyond the Book" articles.
Zero K (), a dark, post-modern science fiction novel by Don DeLillo, uses a sense of disconnection and an aura of oppressive paranoia (as in most DeLillo novels) to interrogate the fundamental fact that human beings are incapable of truly understanding their existence. The story involves a billionaire, his estranged son, Jeffrey, from a first marriage (who is also the narrator), and a mysterious, unnamed organization running an isolated facility where people are frozen and preserved. Zero K may poke fun at life extension, but it gives us the warmest depicture of a DeLillo novel yet at the intimate reason for this perpetual Icarus complex the most powerful reason for this desire for transcendence is love, and as Zero K so poignantly reminds, love is one element that does not survive at subfreezing zero kelvin.” (John Freeman, Boston Globe). In Don DeLillo’s new novel, Zero K, Ross Lockhart (and th A book about death that is also very much about its opposite, life. A narrator, obsessed with naming everyone who crosses his path.
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