{"product_id":"zero-k","title":"Zero K","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eZero K\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDon Delillo\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781501138072\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eScribner\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \"DeLillo's haunting new novel, \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e--his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. 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. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say \"an uncertain farewell\" to her as she surrenders her body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We are born without choosing to be. 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. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book's narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing \"the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDon DeLillo's \"daring...provocative...exquisite\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo's long career\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Zero K | Don Delillo | Paperback | 9781501138072 | New | Fiction 1693502","offer_id":50818526871810,"sku":"1693502","price":30.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71_ZXvcuiJL.jpg?v=1792516226","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/zero-k","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}