Ratner's Star

Zusatztext DeLillo's early-career masterpiece . . . a dense, entertaining, mind-bending boomerang of a book that luxuriates in the language of math and science. Informationen zum 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. Klappentext When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground. There, away from the rest of the world, this panel of estranged, demented and lovable scientists work together on a secret scientific project: deciphering a mysterious transmission received from outer space, from just near Ratner's Star. Written in Don DeLillo's characteristically mesmerizing prose, Ratner's Star is a brilliantly observed, funny and deeply thought-provoking novel which explores the mysterious, mind-blowing, mathematical world of the future. Vorwort Powerful prose invites the reader into the mysterious, mind-blowing, mathematical world of the future. Zusammenfassung Powerful prose invites the reader into the mysterious, mind-blowing, mathematical world of the future.

Product details

• Authors: Don Delillo
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2016
• EAN: 9781509837861
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-3786-1
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Picador
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; USA, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Satire, Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, Amerikanische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung, technology; black comedy; child prodigy; scientific advancement; satirical; satire, Satirical fiction and parodies, Satirical