Description
| Product ID: | 9780330524933 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Cosmopolis |
| Authors: | Author: Don DeLillo |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A mesmeric tour de force of character rendered with DeLillo’s typical stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit becomes a warning for the global future. <p>Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target . . .<br><br> An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the American dream as Wolfe's <i>Bonfire</i> or Ellis's <i>Psycho</i>, Don DeLillo's <i>Cosmopolis</i> is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-03-04 |
