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A carregar... Zero K (original 2016; edição 2016)por Don DeLillo (Autor)
Pormenores da obraZero K por Don DeLillo (2016)
   Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  DrFuriosa | Dec 4, 2020 |  Starts off very slowly, and hits its pace about midway through. (  ) stevrbee | Nov 7, 2020 | Having seen Don Delillo's name far and wide with much acclaim I was intrigued to finally come across one of his books and to sit down and read it. What a disappointment, Until I was most of the way through I could not work out if I was reading a very good book or complete rubbish. I found it self-indulgent, disjointed, claustrophobic and unclear. What was this book about? The freezing plant? the main character's banal inner dialogue? the juxtaposition of all this? Bah! (  ) Ken-Me-Old-Mate | Sep 24, 2020 | Thanks to Netgalley for providing me with an advance copy of Zero K. -- 'Zero K' abides by DeLillo's standard formula- life, death, and paranoia. The man writes some of the most memorable lines out there, and 'Zero K' is no exception. The writing is witty, quick, and deeply resonant. Stylistically, it feels like a mix of 'White Noise' and 'Point Omega', while not quite reaching the heights of either. The story revolves around a billionaire who invests his wealth in cryopreservation to preserve his terminally ill wife. You have to imagine that as DeLillo gets up there in age (he's now 79) he thinks about this stuff constantly, and it definitely shows in the writing. Overall, the book works. While it's not his best work, it's very far from his worst. It seems that DeLillo finally broke out of his slump with 'Point Omega', and is staying steady with 'Zero K'. ( ) bcpeterson727 | Dec 4, 2019 | Couldn’t get in to it. (  ) kakadoo202 | Aug 4, 2019 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
The richest, wisest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don Delillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-- an ode to language, the heart of our humanity; a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a George Soros-like billionaire now in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a deeply remote and secret compound where death is controlled and bodies are preserved until a future moment when medicine and technology can reawaken them. Jeffrey joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say an uncertain farewell to her as she surrenders her body. Ross Lockhart is not driven by the hope for immortality, for power and wealth beyond the grave. He is driven by love for his wife, for Artis, without whom he feels life is not worth living. It is that which compels him to submit to death long before his time. Jeffrey heartily disapproves. He is committed to living, to the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth. Thus begins an emotionally resonant novel that weighs the darkness of the world-- terrorism, floods, fires, famine, death-- against the beauty of everyday life; love, awe, the intimate touch of earth and sun. Brilliantly observed and infused with humor, Don Delillo's Zero K is an acute observation about the fragility and meaning of life, about embracing our family, this world, our language, and our humanity. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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If you've never read DeLillo, stop, pass Go, and then go read White Noise instead. I'm a DeLillo fan, and even I can't decide if I think this book is brilliant or just bad. I'll probably be debating this for awhile. (