Point Omega
A Novel. Winner of the 2010 PEN / Saul Bellow Award
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In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls "prophetic about twenty-first-century America" looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war. Richard Elster is at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by Elster's daughter Jessica—an "otherworldly" woman from New York. The three of them build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event turns detachment into colossal grief, and it is a human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.
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Point Omega, Don DeLillo
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- Point Omega
- Subtitle
- A Novel. Winner of the 2010 PEN / Saul Bellow Award
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Don DeLillo
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN10
- 1439169969
- ISBN13
- 9781439169964
- Series
- Tags
- Contemporary Fiction, American Literature, Filmthema, Life, Novellas, Loss, Museums, Loneliness, Search, Father, Guilt, Daughters, Deserts, Silence
- First published
- 2010
- Original title
- Point Omega
- Rating
- 3.4 out of 5
- Description
- In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls "prophetic about twenty-first-century America" looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war. Richard Elster is at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by Elster's daughter Jessica—an "otherworldly" woman from New York. The three of them build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event turns detachment into colossal grief, and it is a human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.