· The story of Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo is about the final day in the life of Eric Packer, a billionaire financial trader. The novel opens with Packer waking up in . · Don DeLillo writes about the relentless violence of surfaces and information, but unlike American Psycho, "Cosmopolis" hardly offers any comic relief /5(K). · Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s latest hymn to New York, is more prose-poem than novel, says Blake Morrison ‘Telling us where we’re heading’ Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo's 13th novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of a spectacular downfall. © Don DeLillo (P) Simon Schuster, Inc. AUDIOWORKS is an imprint of Simon Schuster Audio Division, Simon Schuster, Inc. Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo's thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era. Don DeLillo. Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including White Noise, Libra, Underworld, Falling Man, and Zero K. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award. Cosmopolis.: Don DeLillo. Simon and Schuster, - Fiction - pages. 5 Reviews. It is an April day in the year and an era is about to end -- those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age.
Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era. Read more Read less The Amazon Book Review. In his novel, Cosmopolis (), Don DeLillo employs an affectless, disengaged style as a commentary on the insular, self-centered modern life, buffered by technology, but disconnected from the world around itself. The story begins in billionaire Eric Packer’s forty-eight-room apartment. Don DeLillo writes about the relentless violence of surfaces and information, but unlike American Psycho, "Cosmopolis" hardly offers any comic relief (except for the pastry assassin, he's hilarious).
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