Ratner's Star
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Description
"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker
One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries).
"His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times
One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries).
"His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times
PUBLISHER:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10:
0679722920
ISBN-13:
9780679722922
BINDING:
Paperback
PUBLICATION YEAR:
1989
NUMBER OF PAGES:
448
BOOK DIMENSIONS:
0.9(H) x 5.2(W) x 8(D)
AUDIENCE TYPE:
General / adult
LANGUAGE:
English