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'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' Sunday Times 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, Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized. 'A prose-poem about New York . . . DeLillo has always been good at telling us where we're heading . . . we ignore him at our peril' Blake Morrison, Guardian
Acquisto del libro
Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2011
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- (Copertina rigida)
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- Titolo
- Cosmopolis
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Don DeLillo
- Editore
- Picador
- Pubblicato
- 2011
- Formato
- Copertina rigida
- Pagine
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0330524933
- ISBN13
- 9780330524933
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Donne, Narrativa contemporanea, USA, Letteratura Americana, Romanzi sociali, Vita, Sessualità e intimità, Adattato in un film, Matrimonio, New York, Contemporaneo, Ricchezza, Bancario, Mercato finanziario, Civiltà occidentale, Declino
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2003
- Titolo originale
- Cosmopolis
- Valutazione
- 3,25 su 5
- Descrizione
- 'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' Sunday Times 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, Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized. 'A prose-poem about New York . . . DeLillo has always been good at telling us where we're heading . . . we ignore him at our peril' Blake Morrison, Guardian