Zero K
19 May 2016Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Synopsis
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...
Details
19 May 2016471 minutes
Thomas Sadoski
9781509833641Imprint: Macmillan Digital Audio
Reviews
Both beautiful and profound, certainly DeLillo's best since Underworld, it forces us to confront the spectre of our own mortality, to ask deep questions of our motives in wishing to prolong our span on Earth. We finish the novel with a sudden recognition of the kindness of death, the balm of a bounded lifeObserver
DeLillo is one of urban life's most perceptive chroniclersIndependent
DeLillo's 16th novel takes a sanguine and, as usual, perceptive look at life as it is now, beset by wars, terrorism and the catastrophic results of climate change, and balances them against the beauty and joy that can be involved in being humanDaily Mail
Humanly moving . . . sentence by sentence brilliance of phrasing and cadenceLiterary Review
