'Point Omega is a treat: the most satisfying and
least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' Sunday Telegraph
Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly
original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive.
Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular,
his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the
soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a
fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of
his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged
across the world as one of the greatest writers of his
generation. Richard Elster, a retired secret war
adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert,
'somewhere south of nowhere'. But his planned isolation
is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker
intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film.
The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Weeks
go by. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits. When a
devastating event follows, all the men's talk, the
accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is
thrown into question.Written in hypnotic prose, this
substantial novel is both a metaphysical meditation and
a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing
emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible. 'Another
formidable construction by a very distinctive writer'
Evening Standard 'A pared, intense anti-parable ...so
rigorous and so precise' Observer 'Impossible to forget'
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