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When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground. There, away from the rest of the world, this panel of estranged, demented and lovable scientists work together on a secret scientific project: deciphering a mysterious transmission received from outer space, from just near Ratner's Star. Written in Don DeLillo's characteristically...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2016 |
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...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2022 |
Ostensibly, Don DeLillo's blackly comic second novel, End Zone, is about Gary Harkness, a football player and student at Logos College, west Texas. During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies of football and nuclear war – the language...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2011 |
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, Don 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. ...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2011 |
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a train carriage releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2022 |
Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM. Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency, and Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist, trying to make sense of or draw inferences from the...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2011 |
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, Don 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...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2011 |
Don 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...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2011 |
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Most...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2011 |
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, Don DeLillo's Zero K is a visionary novel about the...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2017 |
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. 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...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Год | 2016 |
His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream. Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Жанр | Классическая проза |
| Год | 2006 |
New York, üks aprillipäev aastal 2000. 28-aastane multimiljonär Eric Packer sõidab oma kuulikindla limusiiniga põiki läbi Manhattani saare, kohtub sel teekonnal värvika inimgaleriiga ja sattub tunnistajaks nii mõnelegi tavatule sündmusele. Packer armastab kiiret sõitu kapitalistliku äri laineharjal, talle meeldib manipuleerida inimeste ja rahaga, planeerida ja ennustada. Selle aprillipäeva lõpp on aga ootamatu temalegi. DeLillo napp lause tungib meisterlikult tegelase mõtete ja ulmade maailma...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
Üsna tavaline noormees Jeffrey satub oma multimiljonärist isa kutsel Kasahstani asustamata umbsoppi, tohutusse akendeta tehnoloogilisse kompleksi, kus ülirikkad inimesed lasevad end külmutada, et võita surma ja ärgata kunagi paremasse tulevikumaailma. Jeffrey kasuema Artis, kes põeb ravimatut haigust, soovib end külmutada. Hiljem, suutmata leinast üle saada, laseb end külmutada ka Jeffrey isa. Lugu kirjeldabki Jeffrey püüet toimuvat mõista ning inimese ja maailma suhet meie kõrgtehnoloogilisel...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
Американец, работающий в Афинах и стремящийся удержать свою семью от окончательного распада, узнает о существовании странного культа, последователи которого совершили ряд необъяснимых убийств в странах Ближнего и Среднего Востока. Отчасти по воле обстоятельств он оказывается вовлеченным в неофициальное расследование этих преступлений, затеянное его друзьями, и начинает ощущать, что поиски истины необычайно важны и для него самого...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Жанр | Современная проза, Проза |
| Год | 2000 |
Трагедия 11 января 2001 года, увиденная глазами разных героев и в разных ракурсах. Клерк, выбирающийся из уже готовой обвалиться башни, террорист-угонщик, готовящийся к последнему полету, — и еще несколько персонажей, так или иначе вовлекаемых в трагические события. Впрочем, это, по сути, не столько рассказ о трагедии, сколько привычный американский «семейный» роман, в котором плавное течение жизни разбивается внешним вторжением, отчего линейное повествование рассыпается на структурно...
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Жанр | Современная проза, Проза |
| Год | 2010 |
Дон Делилло (р.1936) — американский писатель и драматург, лауреат ряда престижных премий. За роман "Мао II" (1991 г.) был удостоен премии "ПЕН\Фолкнер". Спустя десять лет, когда рухнули башни в Нью-Йорке, Делилло объявили пророком. Эта книга об эпохе, когда будущее принадлежит толпам, а шедевры создаются с помощью гексогена. Ее герой — легендарный американский писатель, много лет проживший отшельником, — оказывается ключевой фигурой в игре ближневосточных террористов.
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Жанр | Современная проза, Проза |
| Год | 2004 |
Дон Делилло (р. 1936) — знаковая фигура в литературном мире. В 1985 г. его роман «Белый шум» был удостоен Национальной книжной премии США. В 2006 г. «Нью-Йорк таймс» включила произведения Делилло «Изнанка мира», «Весы» и «Белый шум» в список лучших американских книг, написанных за последние 25 лет.
Роман «Космополис» лег в основу сюжета одноименного фильма, главную роль в котором сыграл Роберт Паттинсон.
| Автор | Дон Делилло |
| Жанр | Современная проза, Проза |
| Год | 2012 |