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Point Omega - Don DeLillo
Point Omega
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'Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' Sunday Telegraph Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision... show more
'Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' Sunday Telegraph Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the world as one of the greatest writers of his generation. 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 intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Weeks go by. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits. When a devastating event follows, all the men's talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. Written in hypnotic prose, this substantial novel is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible. '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
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780330512398 (0330512390)
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 148
Edition language: English
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LunaLuss
LunaLuss rated it
0.0 I reread this because
I really like how provoking it is, and how ot illustrates postmodern literature. I think I will be rereading it again because it lacks closure. The fact that at the end we don't know what happens to Jessie puts me on edge. I reread it because I keep thinking that I will find clues I overlooked. I fo...
LunaLuss
LunaLuss rated it
The true Life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments Point Omega is not the first novel I try by Dellilo. I started White noise and 10% in I wondered what’s all the fuss about. When I finished Point Omega I realized what’s...
Amadan na Briona
Amadan na Briona rated it
3.0 Point Omega
This is one of those "people sitting around talking deep shit" books. And one of those books that I'd give 2 stars on face value, because I found it mostly pretty boring and pointless and it left me not at all inclined to go rush out and try some more Don DeLillo, yet I still appreciated the craft o...
Frankie reads...
Frankie reads... rated it
1.0 Point Omega: A Novel
Apparently I didn't like this book when I read it. I can tell because I gave it only one star.I don't know what I disliked about this book so much that I only gave it one star, because I cannot recall this book at all. Not the story, none of the characters, not a moment or an idea. I just look at th...
WorldInColour
WorldInColour rated it
Very particular mix of the abstract and the intellectual level. Main character Richard Elster, a pseudo-Nietzsche kind of character, lives in isolation and ventilates his ideas about society and humanity in general. Jim Finley, the narrator and companion of Elster, seems to have no added value in th...
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