Don DeLillo

The trials and tribulations of a profesor of Hitler studies.

"Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town.". "His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors - his experts on security, technology, currency, finance and theory. Sometimes he leaves the car for sexual encounters and sometimes he doesn't have to."--BOOK JACKET.

Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of The Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary -- Don DeLillos's greatest and most powerful work of fiction. -Back Cover

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.

"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The New York Times), Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms. Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover--and Bill's.

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 her as she surrenders her body. “We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn’t it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?” These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book’s narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing “the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.” Don DeLillo’s “daring…provocative…exquisite” (The Washington Post) new novel weighs the darkness of the world—terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague—against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, “the intimate touch of earth and sun.” “One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo’s long career” (The New York Times Book Review), Zero K is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.

All'improvviso, non annunciato, misterioso: il silenzio. La tecnologia digitale ammutolisce. Internet tace. Tutti gli schermi diventano neri. Don DeLillo ha disegnato la mappa per muoversi in questa nostra nuova era oscura. «La sua capacità di raccontare le emozioni del tempo presente è unica. DeLillo è un genio» – The New York Times Manhattan, 2022. Una coppia è in volo verso New York, di ritorno dalla loro prima vacanza dopo la pandemia. In città, in un appartamento nell'East Side, li aspettano tre loro amici per guardare tutti insieme il Super Bowl: una professoressa di fisica in pensione, suo marito e un suo ex studente geniale e visionario. Una scena come tante, un quadro di ritrovata normalità. Poi, all'improvviso, non annunciato, misterioso: il silenzio. Tutta la tecnologia digitale ammutolisce. Internet tace. I tweet, i post, i bot spariscono. Gli schermi, tutti gli schermi, che come fantasmi ci circondano ogni momento della nostra esistenza, diventano neri. Le luci si spengono, un black-out avvolge nelle tenebre la città (o il mondo intero? Del resto come fare a saperlo?) L'aereo è costretto a un atterraggio di fortuna. E addio Super Bowl. Cosa sta succedendo? È l'inizio di una guerra, o la prima ondata di un attacco terroristico? Un incidente? O è il collasso della tecnologia su se stessa, sotto il proprio tirannico peso? È l'apparizione di un buco nero, l'aprirsi di una piega dello spazio e del tempo in cui le nostre vite scivolano inesorabilmente? Di certo c'è questo: era dai tempi di Rumore bianco che Don DeLillo non ci ricordava con tanta accecante precisione che viviamo, disperati e felici, in un mondo delilliano.

La rockstar Bucky Wunderlick, all'apice della fama, decide di abbandonare il suo gruppo mentre è in corso una tournée. Si rifugia in un angolo nascosto di New York, in un appartamento di Great Jones Street, per sfuggire al culto della personalità di cui è oggetto e a un successo in cui non crede più. L'esilio del protagonista, però, è continuamente disturbato dalle visite più disparate: giornalisti a caccia di scoop, agenti interessati a certe sue incisioni inedite, emissari di una misteriosa comune agricola che tentano di coinvolgerlo nel commercio di una nuova e potente droga carpita ai laboratori federali.

Collects nine stories written between 1979 and 2011 that chronicle three decades of American life from the perspective of a range of characters, including a pair of nuns in the South Bronx and two astronauts orbiting the Earth.