Name: Ratner's Star (Vintage Contemporaries)
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Author: Don DeLillo
ISBN: 9780679722922

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Don DeLillo

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1989

Language

English

Pages

437

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

14.8 x 19.3 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.39 kg.

ISBN

0679722920

ISBN13

9780679722922

Synopsis "Ratner's Star (Vintage Contemporaries) "

"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

Don DeLillo

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He is the author of sixteen novels and several plays. He has won numerous awards, such as the National Book Award for White Noise (1985; Seix Barral, 2006), the International Fiction Prize for Libra (1988; Seix Barral, 2006), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II (1991; Seix Barral, 2008), the Howells Medal for Underworld (1997; Seix Barral, 2009) and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award and the Jerusalem Prize for his entire career.

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