Point Omega by Don DeLillo (Paperback, 2010)

Point Omega by Don DeLillo (Paperback, 2010)

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Point Omega by Don DeLillo

In the middle of a desert `somewhere south of nowhere', to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war adviser has gone in search of space and time. Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. They asked him to conceptualize their efforts - to form an intellectual framework for their troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition. For two years he read their classified documents and attended secret meetings. He was to map the reality these men were trying to create. `Bulk and swagger', he called it.

At the end of his service, Elster retreats to the desert, where he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience. Jim Finley wants to make a one-take film, Elster its single character - `Just a man against a wall.'

The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Finley makes the case for his film. Weeks go by. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits - an `otherworldly' woman from New York - who dramatically alters the dynamic of the story. When a devastating event follows, all the men's talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. What is left is loss, fierce and incomprehensible.

Point Omega is a deeply unnerving and brilliant work from one of our greatest living writers.

`DeLillo is one of the greatest living American writers' Scotland on Sunday

`Extravagant literary gifts, formidable intellect and unflinching artistic gaze . . . A genuine master' Irish Independent

`The most trustworthy and rigorous prose writer of our age' John Burnside.

 

Paperback | 128 pages

153 x 234 x 10mm | 180g

 Pan MacMillan

PICADOR

London, United Kingdom

033051377X

9780330513777

 

Condition: Very Good

A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. Very minimal damage to the cover, including very minimal scuff marks along the edges. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. Very minimal wear and tear.