Cosmopolis

A mesmeric tour de force of character rendered with DeLillo’s typical stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit becomes a warning for the global future.

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, Don DeLillo''s Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.

• | Author: Don DeLillo
• | Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Mar 04, 2011
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780330524933
• | ISBN-10: 0330524933