DELILLO DON

(H/B) THE SILENCE
From one of America's greatest writers, The Silence is a timely and compelling novel about what happens when an unpredictable crisis strikes. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickoff is one commercial awa...
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(P/B) ZERO K
Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled. He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, who has chosen to surrender her dying body; preserving it until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return her to a life of transcendent promise. And his healthy father, Ross, might join her. Hypnotic and seductive, Zero K is a visionary novel about the legacies we leave, the nobility of death, and the ultimate worth of 'th...
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(P/B) THE BODY ARTIST
The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, DeLillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of our idiosyncratic relationships. But after breakfast, Rey makes a decision that leaves Lauren utterly alone, or seems to. As Lauren, the body artist of the title, becomes strangely detached from herself and the temporal world, the novel becomes an exploration of ...
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ΖΥΓΟΣ
Ο Λη Χάρβεϋ Όσβαλντ πίστευε ότι τον είχε επιλέξει η μοίρα για ν’ αλλάξει τον δρόμο της Ιστορίας. Χρειαζόταν κάποιον για μια ανεπιτυχή απόπειρα κατά του προέδρου Τζων Φ. Κέννεντυ, που θα συνέδεαν με την κομμουνιστική Κούβα. Στις 22 Νοεμβρίου του 1963, μέσα στους δρόμους του Ντάλας, το πεπρωμένο του Όσβαλντ διασταυρώθηκε μ’ εκείνο του Κέννεντυ και ο κόσμος βρέθηκε μάρτυρας στην τρομακτική εξόντωση του αμερικανικού ονείρου. Με τον «Ζυγό», ο Ντον Ντελίλλο μας δίνει το μυθιστόρημα που η συγκλονισμένη αμερικανική ψυχή περίμενε είκοσι πέντε χρόνι...
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ΟΙ ΧΡΟΝΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΣΩΜΑΤΟΣ
Από τη δημοσίευση του πρώτου μυθιστορήματός του («Americana») ο Ντον ΝτεΛίλλο εκφράζει, εδώ και 30 χρόνια, το πνεύμα των καιρών. Τώρα, με το γύρισμα του αιώνα, μάς παραδίδει τους «Χρόνους του σώματος» («The Body Artist»). Σε αυτό το λιτό, σαγηνευτικό μυθιστόρημα, ο συγγραφέας έχει εγκατασταθεί στον σιωπηλό κόσμο της Λόρεν Χάρτκι, που αψηφά με την καλλιτεχνική της πράξη τα όρια του σώματος. Η Λόρεν ζει σε μια ερημική ακτή, σε ένα τεράστιο νοικιασμένο σπίτι, όπου συναντά έναν παράξενο άντρα χωρίς ηλικία, έναν άνθρωπο με αναπάντεχα λεπτομερή ...
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(P/B) MAO II
Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. As Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover - and Bill's. An extraordinary novel from Don DeLillo about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass ...
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(P/B) RATNER'S STAR
An early novel from much celebrated DeLillo, in which his characteristically powerful prose invites the reader into the mysterious, mind-blowing, mathematical world of the future. Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FALLING MAN
Falling Man begins on September 11, in the smoke and ash of the burning towers. In the days and the years following, we trace the aftermath of this global tremor in the private lives of a few reticulated individuals. Theirs are lives choreographed by loss, by grief and by the enormous force of history. From these intimate portraits, DeLillo shifts to an extrapolated vision: he charts the way the events have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. This is an unforgettable novel, at once cathartic an...
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(P/B) THE NAMES
DeLillo's seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this ritualistic violence, an American risk analyst is drawn to search for an explanation. We follow his progress on an obsessive journey that begins to take over his life and the lives of those closest to him. In addition to offering a series of precise character studies, The Names explores the intersection of language and culture, the perception of America from...
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(P/B) PLAYERS
In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create. Originally published in 1977, Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonst...
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(P/B) RUNNING DOG
Moll Robbins is a journalist in a rut. But she gets wind of a very exciting story: it concerns a small piece of celluloid, a pornographic film purportedly shot in a bunker in the climactic days of Berlin's fall - with Hitler as its star. One person claims to have access to this unique piece of Naziana; inevitably, more than one want it. Unfortunately for Moll, in the black-market world of erotica, the currency is blackmail, torture and corruption; and no price is too high. As the paranoia builds and the combatants lose sight of their motiv...
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(P/B) POINT OMEGA
Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the world as one of the greatest writers of his generation. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, ‘somewher...
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(P/B) THE ANGEL ESMERALDA
His characters are plagued by their own deep, often unconscious, longings; they are subjected to shocking violations, exposed to unexpected acts of terror. No matter whether he is focused upon the slums of New York or astronauts in orbit around the Earth, DeLillo chooses never to turn away from the unsettling manner in which humans are brought together. These nine stories describe the extraordinary journey of a great American writer who changed the literary landscape. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ZERO K
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 s...
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(H/B) ZERO K
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 s...
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(P/B) MAO II
Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. Mao II explores a world in which the novelist's power to influence the inner life of a culture now belongs to bomb-makers and gunmen. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) VALPARAISO
A man sets out on what he imagines will be an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It proves to be anything but run-of-the-mill, turning instead into a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. Valparaiso is a funny, sharp and deeply satirical look at our information age. This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public, before listening millions, that we don’t dare say privately. Nothing is allowed to be unseen. Nothing remains unread. And everything melts repeatedly ...
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(P/B) COSMOPOLIS (FILM TIE-IN)
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn't know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, his world begins to fall apart. But more worrying than the loss of his fortune is the realization that his life may be under threat. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) PLAYERS
In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their 'ideal' life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation which leads both of them into separate but equally fatal adventures. And still they remain untouched, 'players' indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) POINT OMEGA