Zero K
by Don DeLillo /
2016 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
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?”
“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.”
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.”
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
Zero K is glorious.
is glorious.