Ratner's Star"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 |
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User Review - reganrule - LibraryThingRatner’s Star is a profound(ly funny) work of metaphysical fiction. It is metaphysical in both the Ancient (Pythagorean/Parmenidean)sense, and the Modern (Dialectic of Enlightenment) sense. It is an ... Read full review
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| Title | Ratner's Star Vintage Contemporaries |
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012 |
| ISBN | 0307817156, 9780307817150 |
| Length | 448 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Humorous / General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Science Fiction / Alien Contact |
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