Synopsis
Written in hypnotic prose, Don DeLillo's Point Omega is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible.
Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, 'somewhere south of nowhere'. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker...
Details
05 March 2010
160 pages
9780330521802
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels.Sunday Telegraph
Another formidable construction by a very distinctive writer.Evening Standard
A pared, intense anti-parable . . . so rigorous and so precise.Observer
Impossible to forget.Sunday Times