Cosmopolis

di Don DeLillo (Autore)

Pan Macmillan, 2011

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, Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.

• Autore: Don DeLillo
• Editore: Pan Macmillan
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 197 x 130 mm
• Peso: 165 gr.
• EAN: 9780330524933

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