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Ratner's Star

Ratner's Star

Delillo, Don

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

HumorScience FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0679722920
ISBN13: 9780679722922
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Jul 17 1989
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.94 Width: 7.61 Depth: 5.82
Language: English
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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