“I can poke my finger through it.” This sentiment reverberates throughout this elusive book.

“The thinness of contemporary life,” DeLillo writes in his 16th novel. OL20026430W Page_number_confidence 91.89 Pages 298 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200601121315 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 307 Scandate 20200529101832 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781509822850 Tts_version 3.A cryogenic facility beyond the edges of civilization provokes a series of meditations on death and life. Jeff, the book's narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing 'the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.' Don DeLillo's seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant new novel weighs the darkness of the world-terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague-against the beauty and humanity of everyday life love, awe, 'the intimate touch of earth and sun.'Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 07:03:58 Boxid IA1806421 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?' These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say 'an uncertain farewell' to her as she surrenders her body. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing.

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