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Zero K

By: Don DeLillo
Narrated by: Thomas Sadoski
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Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his 60s, 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, and the intimate touch of earth and sun.

©2016 Simon and Schuster US (P)2016 Simon and Schuster US Family Life Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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I was drawn to the book due to the great subject, and certainly there was no detail left unexplored that’s too the protagonists Statement call mom but far more interesting story what happened in the future was the reason why I read the book … rarely I regret reading a book, this is one of those times

So much potential but a waste of time

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Absolutely tedious. DeLillo can be a bit up and down - this one was definitely down.

Not one of the better ones

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