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Ratner's Star

by Don DeLillo
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"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." —The New Yorker
One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries).  
"His most spectacularly inventive novel." —The New York Times 
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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: April 11, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9780307817150
  • Release date: April 11, 2012

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  • ISBN: 9780307817150
  • File size: 2673 KB
  • Release date: April 11, 2012

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Kindle Book
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subjects

Fiction Literature Science Fiction Humor (Fiction)

Languages

English

"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." —The New Yorker
One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries).  
"His most spectacularly inventive novel." —The New York Times 
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Science Fiction Humor (Fiction)