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A Convergence, un'azienda tecnologica con una futuristica sede ultrasegreta nel deserto del Kazakistan, si possono conservare criogenicamente i corpi e le coscienze fino al giorno in cui la medicina potrà guarire ogni malattia. E qui che Ross Lockhart, magnate della finanza sulla sessantina, decide di portare la sua amatissima seconda moglie, gravemente malata. Eppure l'idea di continuare a vivere senza di lei è cosi insopportabile che Ross an...

DeLillos zeitloses Porträt einer sinnentleerten Gesellschaft - jetzt wiederentdecken! Lyle und Pammy - ein typisches New Yorker Yuppiepaar der späten 1970er-Jahre: Er arbeitet an der Börse, sie im World Trade Center. Abends sitzt er in der perfekt eingerichteten Wohnung und zappt sich durch das Fernsehprogramm, sie geht zum Stepptanz. Beide stürzen sich in Affären. Lyle beobachtet sogar einen Mord und lässt sich auf ein Detektivspiel ein. Doc...

In Valparaiso, a breathtaking play from Don DeLillo, a man sets out on what he imagines will be an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It proves to be anything but run-of-the-mill, turning instead into a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. Valparaiso is a funny, sharp and deeply satirical look at our information age. This is the way we talk to each other today. This is the way we tell each other things, in public,...

Keith Neudecker lavora nelle Twin Towers e sopravvive al crollo di una delle due. Si ritrova coperto di cenere, vetro e sangue, in mano stringe una valigetta non sua. Scioccato, si fa portare a casa della moglie Lianne, dalla quale si era separato da oltre un anno. Keith e Lianne cercano di riavvicinarsi, con loro c'è il figlio Justin, che passa le giornate scrutando il cielo alla ricerca di altri aerei mandati da Bill Lawton (così, con i suoi...

Il "rumore bianco" del titolo è il suono che ossessiona il protagonista del romanzo: forse è una semplice emissione della "partitura panasonica" in cui siamo immersi ogni giorno, oppure un minaccioso messaggio in codice. Jack Gladney, studioso di Hitler e direttore di un dipartimento di studi hitleriani nella sua università, tiene un corso sul fascino ipnotico esercitato dai discorsi del Fuhrer, dai canti e dagli inni del Terzo Reich, e finisc...

Chi è lo sconosciuto dall'aspetto dolce e infantile per cui tempo, spazio e linguaggio non hanno senso? O almeno non lo stesso senso che hanno per noi. O per Lauren, la giovane body artist che se lo trova davanti all'improvviso in una delle tante stanze della vecchia casa sulla costa del Maine dove vive sola. Rey, suo marito da pochi mesi, si è suicidato, e lo sconosciuto parla con la sua voce, pronuncia frasi che Lauren è sicura di avere già ...

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David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish.

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Love-Lies-Bleeding, " Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection.Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a complicat...

¿Tothom recorda el nom de l¿assasí, Norman Bates, però ningú recorda el de la víctima.¿ Richard Elster, un ideòleg de la maquinària de guerra nord-americana, passa els dies de retir sol, ¿en algun indret al sud d¿enlloc¿. El director de cinema Jim Finley el va a veure per rodar un documental sobre la seva experiència. Pretén rodar un únic pla en què Elster, recolzat en una paret, parli. Però l¿arribada de la filla d¿Elster, provinent d¿un món ...

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Winner of the 1985 National Book Award-from the author of Zero K A Penguin Classic Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultra­modern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event, " a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. Th...

Die Geschichte eines Tages im Leben des Finanzjongleurs Eric Packer als Allegorie auf die zerstörerische Kraft des Kapitalismus. New York an einem Tag im April 2000. Eric Packer, erfolgreicher und steinreicher Vermögensverwalter, fährt in seiner Stretchlimosine durch die Stadt. Er hat, wie meistens, nicht geschlafen, das Leben langweilt ihn. Auf der Fahrt durch Manhattan steckt er ständig im Stau: der Präsident ist in der Stadt, der Beerdigun...

The National Book Award-winning author of White Noise, Libra and Underworld, whom many readers, writers and critics consider our greatest living writer, delivers a haunting, big-themed novel about the event that defines the turn of 21st century America.

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Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say "an uncertain farewell" to h...

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely contro...

New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time—an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life.Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remo...