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Cosmopolis

by Don Delillo

ISBN: 0743244249
ISBN-13: 9780743244244
Format: Hardcover

Summary

Don DeLillo's 13th novel focuses on a 28-year-old billionaire, Eric Packer, on one fateful day in his life. It's April, 2000, and Eric spends most of the day being driven around Manhattan in his limo. From the back seat, he weathers a series of disasters, both economic (the yen is rising when Eric bet on its fall) and local (he and his driver meet up with an anarchist group), commits an act of violence, lunches with his wife but has sex with two other women, and confronts the stalker who is plaguing him. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

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"[B]leakly funny....DeLillo assembles these quirky particulars expertly-and he still writes better sentences than any other contemporary author. The tale is ingenious and amusing, and there's a chilling logic to its eloquent climax...."

   -- Kirkus

"[F]or all the comic and ironic bite DeLillo gets out of skewering New Economy wackiness, he's really dealing with bigger and tougher issues. As Packer's limo fights its way across Manhattan, COSMOPOLIS steers deeper and deeper into both myth and current events. [The novel] strips away any pretense of insulated comfort and replaces it with a curious and heady sense."    -- Matt Konrad

   -- Ruminator Review

"Like UNDERWORLD, Don DeLillo's new novel is an up-to-the-minute gizmo with a nineteenth-century heart....As with UNDERWORLD, the success of the book hangs on DeLillo's ability to make the old-fashioned heart of his novel animate its postmodern body; and as with UNDERWORLD, this success is compromised by DeLillo's merely theoretical interest in human beings."    -- James Wood

   -- New Republic

"A large part of the very great strength of DeLillo's work is the fact that beneath the martini chill of the writing's surface there is the lather and fizz of a schooner of old-style New York beer....In the stressed-beyond-stress figure of Eric Packer, DeLillo has created a figure horribly representative of our damaged times. COSMOPOLIS may not be the best book that he has written, or is capable of writing, but in these grim days it is probably the best that we can expect."    -- John Banville

   -- Bookforum

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published date: 2003
Size: 6 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.8 pounds
Pages: 224

Publisher's Notes

A brilliant billionaire asset manager, en route via white stretch limo to the local haircutter, finds his trip interrupted by a presidential motorcade, music idol's funeral, movie set, and violent political demonstration, and receives a number of important visitors in the fields of security, technology, currency, finance, and theory.

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