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Original Title:	Zero K
ISBN:	1501135392 (ISBN13: 9781501135392)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Ross Lockhart
Literary Awards:	John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel (2017)

Zero K

Don DeLillo

Hardcover | Pages: 274 pages

Rating: 3.2 | 9109 Users | 1373 Reviews

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Title	:	Zero K
Author	:	Don DeLillo
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 274 pages
Published	:	May 3rd 2016 by Scribner (first published March 3rd 2016)
Categories	:	Fiction. Science Fiction. Novels. Literary Fiction

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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 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 seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant 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.”

Zero K is glorious.

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I'm a Don DeLillo newbie! The very first line of the book grabs your attention. "Everyone wants to own the end of the world".... I wonder .. am I the only one who took a break -( after just one sentence)-to locate the group "Tears For Fears"...on their iPhone?....To sing along to "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"? -- sing & dance a little? I'm sure the talented Don DeLillo wouldn't have cared if an old favorite song got me in the mood for his book. :)Jeffrey went through great lengths of

This started out feeling really creepy to me and I wasn't enjoying it. Now that I've finished reading it, I'm finding it hard to stop thinking about it. About one third of the way through I thought about setting it aside but I changed my mind (at least a couple of times) and decided that I had to give it a chance. This was by DeLillo after all, and because he has so eloquently spoken to me in past novels and caused me to think about the things that happened in my lifetime - the impact of

"I'd never felt more human than I did when my mother lay in bed, dying.""This was not the not the frailty of a man who is said to be 'only human,' subject to weakness or vulnerability. This was a wave of sadness and loss that made me understand that I was a man expanded by grief." Don DeLillo, Zero KI first jumped into DeLillo's unique, hypnotic prose when I read Mao II. His words swelled for me like a sacred mantra. There were other writers before that seduced me, that blew me away with their

"What was it beyond a concentrated lesson in bewilderment?" This is my third DeLillo novel. I really enjoyed White Noise but thought the ending was a little fumbled, and I think Cosmopolis is a masterpiece of sorts; a nearly perfect novel. I also have a rule for myself that I'm not allowed to have an opinion on a book if I haven't finished it. I had a real internal struggle maintaining that rule with Zero K. Nearly every page all the way up until around the 95% mark I wanted to just cut my

Rocks are, but they do not exist"Rocks are, but they do not exist," the quotation from Heidegger may well encapsulate the theme of this entire novel. Then again, maybe not. Heidegger's point, I think, is that existence implies consciousness and a knowledge of the alternatives, which is something that only human beings can achieve. DeLillo's novel, which is set in a cryogenic facility buried in a desert in one of the former Soviet -Stans, approaches this knowledge by focusing on death, and the

Death: Would you postpone it indefinitely if given the chance--if you had enough money and the technology was available? Would you choose to be frozen and your body stored until a time when your disease could be cured? Would you bet that a future world would be that much better than ours? Would you take a chance that you might be able to live forever by dying now?Ross Lockhart, an American billionaire in his 60s, is the primary investor in a remote and secret facility called Convergence where

Last week for my birthday I went to hear the variously reconstituted 1960s-era Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, not because I was particularly attached to them or any of their songs but more on an impulse, and while listening I found I was coming to some conclusion about how to review Don DeLillo's Zero K, which I had just finished.I don't relate easily to Don DeLillo's books, and this one was no exception. The main character, Jeffrey Lockhart, comes across bloodless and lost in anomie. Other adjectives