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Sinossi
A Convergence, un'azienda tecnologica con una futuristica sede ultrasegreta nel deserto del Kazakistan, si possono conservare criogenicamente i corpi e le coscienze fino al giorno in cui la medicina potrà guarire ogni malattia. E qui che Ross Lockhart, magnate della finanza sulla sessantina, decide di portare la sua amatissima seconda moglie, gravemente malata. Eppure l'idea di continuare a vivere senza di lei è cosi insopportabile che Ross annuncia al figlio di prime nozze, lo smarrito e turbato Jeff, di volerla seguire in questa sfida contro il tempo, nell'attesa di tornare un giorno e vivere ancora insieme, per sempre. Attraverso gli occhi di un figlio, che vuole dedicarsi alla vita, e di un padre che la vuole sospendere, DeLillo si immerge negli abissi di un tema estremo e ne riemerge con qualcosa che è allo stesso tempo nuovo e universale.
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- Pagine: 244
- Data di uscita: 19-09-2017
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There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger. —T. S. Eliot, Choruses From The Rock In death we are all equal. Having to face that mortality and illness of their beloved ones is even beyond their control, as upon death a Leggi tutto
I’ve read all DeLillo’s novels except his first, Americana. I’ve read Underworld three times and would make the claim that it’s the best novel written by a currently living novelist. When he’s inspired his prose is as searing, insightful and exciting as it gets. Unfortunately he’s probably had his g Leggi tutto
This started out feeling really creepy to me and I wasn't enjoying it. Now that I've finished reading it, I'm finding it hard to stop thinking about it. About one third of the way through I thought about setting it aside but I changed my mind (at least a couple of times) and decided that I had to gi Leggi tutto
This isn't the first time I'm trying DeLillo, but I don't know if I'd go back to him after this. Yes, empirically I understand, this is the sort of book that wins awards, it's dealing with heavy subjects (mortality, meaning of life, etc.), it's written in that specific language of structured beauty, Leggi tutto
This was my first DeLillo book, and it might be my last. He was never really on my radar, but the premise of Zero K sounded intriguing: A young man's incredibly wealthy father and stepmother decide to put their bodies into a sort of stasis until medical technology reaches a point where they can live Leggi tutto
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