Ratner's Star - Paperback
by Don Delillo
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Availability:In StockContributor:Don DelilloSeries:Vintage ContemporariesPublish date:1989-07-17Pages:448
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679722922ISBN-10:679722920UPC:9780679722922Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Science Fiction, HumorousBook Topic:Alien ContactSize:5.82 x 7.61 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.85Product ID:SCZWM039XZ
"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times
Languages:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679722922ISBN-10:679722920UPC:9780679722922Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Science Fiction, HumorousBook Topic:Alien ContactSize:5.82 x 7.61 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.85Product ID:SCZWM039XZ
Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.
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