Ratner's Star
14 December 2017
Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
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...
Details
14 December 2017
954 minutes
Jacques Roy
9781509843381
Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
Brilliant . . . the wit, elegance, and economy of Don DeLillo's art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions.New York Times Book Review
Eerie and intriguing . . . funny as well as instructive.Time
A mind-expanding trip to the finish line, and full of wit and slapstick as wellWashington Post
DeLillo's early-career masterpiece . . . a dense, entertaining, mind-bending boomerang of a book that luxuriates in the language of math and science.LA Times