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Cosmopolis
Taschenbuch von Don DeLillo
Sprache: Englisch

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'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' Sunday Times

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 . . .

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 Bonfire or Ellis's Psycho, Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.

'A prose-poem about New York . . . DeLillo has always been good at telling us where we're heading . . . we ignore him at our peril' Blake Morrison, Guardian

'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' Sunday Times

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 . . .

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 Bonfire or Ellis's Psycho, Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.

'A prose-poem about New York . . . DeLillo has always been good at telling us where we're heading . . . we ignore him at our peril' Blake Morrison, Guardian

Über den Autor
Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including 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 for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.
Zusammenfassung
A mesmeric tour de force of character rendered with DeLillo's typical stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit becomes a warning for the global future.
Details
Empfohlen (bis): 99
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 208 S.
ISBN-13: 9780330524933
ISBN-10: 0330524933
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: DeLillo, Don
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Picador
Maße: 195 x 130 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Don DeLillo
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.03.2011
Gewicht: 0,169 kg
Artikel-ID: 107229058
Über den Autor
Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including 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 for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.
Zusammenfassung
A mesmeric tour de force of character rendered with DeLillo's typical stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit becomes a warning for the global future.
Details
Empfohlen (bis): 99
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 208 S.
ISBN-13: 9780330524933
ISBN-10: 0330524933
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: DeLillo, Don
Hersteller: Pan Macmillan
Picador
Maße: 195 x 130 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Don DeLillo
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.03.2011
Gewicht: 0,169 kg
Artikel-ID: 107229058
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