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Zero K

Don DeLillo

Buch

Englisch

DeLillo, Don (Verfasser/-in) DNB

Macmillan

London

2017

274 S.

ISBN9781509822843?11,30

978-1-5098-2284-3

Tod
Frau
Milliardär
Amerika
Krankheit

Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled.He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, who has chosen to surrender her dying body; preserving it until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return her to a life of transcendent promise.And his healthy father, Ross, might join her.Hypnotic and seductive, Zero K is a visionary novel about the legacies we leave, the nobility of death, and the ultimate worth of 'the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.'The story of Ross Lockhart, a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Can technology save Artis for a future where her condition is curable? The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.