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Zero K Hardback - 2016

by Don Delillo

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New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book

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 manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?"

These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book's narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing "the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth."

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.

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  • Title Zero K
  • Author Don Delillo
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner Book Company, New York
  • Publication date 2016
  • ISBN 9781501135392 / 1501135392
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.4 x 1 in (22.86 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Fathers and sons
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015040210
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 03/01/2016, Page 42
  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2016, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2016, Page 61
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/14/2015, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 05/06/2016, Page 0

About the author

Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including Underworld, Zero K, Libra, and White Noise, and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda, a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has also written plays and essays. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 2025, the Academy's Gold Medal for Fiction. DeLillo has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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