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nA New York Times Notable Book nA New York Times bestseller, DeLillos haunting new novel, Zero K--his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld (The New York Times), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life. n nJeffrey Lockharts 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. n nWe are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isnt 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 books narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth. n nDon DeLillos 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. n nOne of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillos long career (The New York Times Book Review), Zero K is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.n
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