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Point Omega

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Point Omega

Sinopsis
In the middle of a desert somewhere south of nowhere', to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war adviser has gone in search of space and time. Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar an outsider when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. For two years he tried to make intellectual sense of the troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition. He was to map the reality these men were trying to create.

At the end of his service, Elster retreats to the desert, where he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience. Jim Finley wants to make a one-take film, Elster its single character Just a man against a wall.'

The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Finley makes the case for his film. Weeks go by. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits an otherworldly' woman from New York who dramatically alters the dynamic of the story. When a devastating event follows, all the men's talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. What is left is loss, fierce and incomprehensible.

Biografía del autor:

Don DeLillo nació y creció en Nueva York. Es autor de diecisiete novelas y tres obras de teatro, y ha ganado numerosos premios, como el National Book Award por Ruido de fondo (1985; Seix Barral, 2006), el International Fiction Prize por Libra (1988; Seix Barral, 2006), el PEN/Faulkner Award de Ficción por Mao II (1991; Seix Barral, 2008), la Medalla Howells por Submundo (1997; Seix Barral, 2009), el Jerusalem Prize y el PEN/Saul Bellow Award a toda su carrera y la Medalla del National Book Award por su contribución a las letras estadounidenses.

Editorial PICADOR (MACMILLAN PUBLISHERS LTD)

Fecha publicación 01-01-2010

Edición : 1

Número de páginas : 117

ISBN : 978-0-330-51238-1

Encuadernación: TAPA DURA

Tamaño:  0 x 0

Idioma: Inglés