Cosmopolis

Don DeLillo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2003
Picador (Verlag)
978-0-330-41276-6 (ISBN)

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A mesmeric tour de force of character, stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit from 'one of America's smartest and most disturbing writers' The Times

It's a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who owns a forty-eight-room apartment and a decommissioned nuclear bomber and who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across the middle of Manhattan, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding through town, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups.

Eric's bodyguards are worried that he is a target and, indeed, he is -- although the danger, as it turns out, is not from protesters or political assassins but from an anonymous man who lives in an abandoned building.

'De Lillo makes you realize just how exhilarating reading a book ought to be' Daily Express

'DeLillo shapes a rhetoric for our age' Observer

Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.5.2003
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	457 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
Schlagworte	Englisch; Romane/Erzählungen
ISBN-10	0-330-41276-0 / 0330412760
ISBN-13	978-0-330-41276-6 / 9780330412766
Zustand	Neuware