Don DeLillo

"Five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment in 2022 react to a mysterious, catastrophic event that severs all of modern life's digital connections in this new novel from the National Book Award-winning author of White Noise"--Provided by publisher.

In the middle of a desert "somewhere south of nowhere," to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war advisor has gone in search of space and time. Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar-an outsider-when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. They asked Elster to conceptualize their efforts-to form an intellectual framework for their troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition. For two years he...

Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, this small masterpiece of short fiction is a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo's iconic voice. In "Creation," a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can't get off the island-flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In "Human Moments in World War III," two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence...

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and...

At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a high-powered television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And then the dream-and the dream-making-become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand,...

One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity...

Geschichten, geschrieben zwischen 1979 und 2011, Chronik und Prophezeiung: Die Karibik, Griechenland, Manhattan, ein Gefängnis für Wirtschaftsdelikte und das Weltall sind die Schauplätze. Unsere paranoide Gegenwart durch das Brennglas eines Visionärs. Es gibt keinen Dichter des US amerikanischen Sprachraums, der mit solcher Lakonie so viel Spannung und Geheimnis aufbauen kann. Beim Hören dieser Geschichten verändert sich die literarische Erdoberfläche,...

Ein tief verstörendes, brillantes Werk über Verlust und Verschwinden Irgendwo "südlich von Nirgendwo" lebt Richard Elster in einem einsam gelegenen Haus und denkt über Raum und Zeit nach. Zwei Jahre lang hatte er der amerikanischen Regierung als geheimer Berater für den Irakkrieg gedient und sich dann in die Wüste zurückgezogen. Dort besucht ihn ein junger Filmemacher, der ihn für eine Dokumentation gewinnen möchte. Auch Elsters Tochter...

Die Geschichte eines Tages im Leben des Finanzjongleurs Eric Packer als Allegorie auf die zerstörerische Kraft des Kapitalismus. New York an einem Tag im April 2000. Eric Packer, erfolgreicher und steinreicher Vermögensverwalter, fährt in seiner Stretchlimosine durch die Stadt. Er hat, wie meistens, nicht geschlafen, das Leben langweilt ihn. Auf der Fahrt durch Manhattan steckt er ständig im Stau: der Präsident ist in der Stadt, der Beerdigungszug...

"There's a long drive. It's gonna be. I believe. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant." - Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951 On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason...