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Cosmopolis

By Don DeLillo

Cosmopolis Contemporary literature

Cosmopolis

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'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' Sunday Times Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target . . . An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the American dream as Wolfe's Bonfire or Ellis's Psycho, Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized. 'A prose-poem about New York . . . DeLillo has always been good at telling us where we're heading . . . we ignore him at our peril' Blake Morrison, Guardian
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
2011-03-04
Publication Date:
2011-03-04
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0330524933
ISBN13:
9780330524933
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
169 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
20 cm

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