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"Keith Neudecker lavora nelle Twin Towers e sopravvive al crollo di una delle due. Si ritrova coperto di cenere, vetro e sangue, in mano stringe una valigetta non sua. Scioccato, si fa portare a casa della moglie Lianne, dalla quale si era separato da oltre un anno. Keith e Lianne cercano di riavvicinarsi, con loro c''e il figlio Justin, che passa le giornate scrutando il cielo alla ricerca di altri aerei mandati da Bill Lawton (cosi, con i suoi amici, Justin storpia il nome di bin Laden). Dalla valigetta Keith risale a Florence, un''altra sopravvissuta, che inizia a frequentare all''insaputa della moglie. Una relazione, anche sessuale, retta sul trauma che li accomuna. Nella seconda parte compare Nina, la madre di Lianne. Da dopo il suicidio del marito sta con Martin, un uomo ambiguo che ha vissuto tra gli Stati Uniti e l''Europa: un miscredente, un occidentale, un bianco, ma forse anche un terrorista. Tre anni dopo, il tentativo di ricostruire la famiglia e fallito: Keith trascorre lunghi periodi in viaggio, da Parigi a Las Vegas, immerso nei tornei di poker, assorbito in una vita che lo riduce quasi una cosa; Lianne aiuta con corsi di scrittura creativa anziani affetti dall''Alzheimer e si e avvicinata alla religione cattolica. Le loro vite sono intersecate dall''uomo che cade, un performer che si lancia in caduta statica da vari punti della citta, assumendo le posizioni di un uomo che si era buttato dalle Torri prima del crollo: ""a testa in giu, con le braccia tese lungo i fianchi, un ginocchio sollevato"". "

Tutto inizia con un cadavere: quello di un uomo vestito da donna, abbandonato in un cantiere. La polizia fa ipotesi banali, solo un certo Lightborne, negoziante e collezionista di curiosit erotiche, crede di sapere la verit. La vittima sarebbe venuta in possesso di un documento unico: il filmato di un'orgia con Hitler protagonista, nel bunker sottostante il Reich, pochi giorni prima della fine del nazismo. Diverse persone - una giornalista di estrema sinistra, un agente segreto, un gallerista coinvolto nei traffici della pornografia, tre reduci del Vietnam - si lanciano alla ricerca del misterioso film.

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn't know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, his world begins to fall apart. But more worrying than the loss of his fortune is the realization that his life may be under threat. 'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' Sunday Times 'One of America's smartest and most disturbing writers' The Times

There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. "Falling Man" begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and traces the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people. First there is Keith, walking out of the rubble into a life that he'd always imagined belonged to everyone but him. Then Lianne, his estranged wife, memory-haunted, trying to reconcile two versions of the same shadowy man. And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history. Brave and brilliant, "Falling Man" traces the way the events of September 11 have reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory and our perception of the world. It is beautiful, heartbreaking, cathartic.

En Estados Unidos es común andar a la busca de certezas: queremos conocer los hechos, todos; entender las cosas, correctamente; avanzar confiados con la seguridad de que tenemos todo bajo control. Don DeLillo nos muestra un panorama distinto. En los mundos de sus obras de teatro y de sus novelas reinan la incertitumbre, las ambiguedades siniestras y la realidad tiene mas de una capa. Una elusividad del sentido de las experiencias vividas invade el corazon de sus personajes. Armado a la vez de una filosofia existencial y de una astucia cultural, hurga en la psique estadounidense, penetrando bajo nuestra piel como ningun otro escritor.

A rich parody of the parallels between the jargon of football and the jargon of battle and a touch of cold-war existentialism makes this powerful novel as hilarious as it is relevant.Nobody, it seems, could write better than this. No one could have a clearer vision of the micro-circuitry of post-modern life Evening StandardOstensibly, DeLillos blackly comic second novel is about Gary Harkness, a football player and student at Logos College, west Texas. During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies of football and nuclear war the language of end zones become interchanged, the polysemous nature of words emerges, and DeLillo forces us to see beyond the sterile reality of substitution. This clever and playful novel is a timeless and topical study of human beings obsession with conflict and confrontation.

he wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time—an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death,

Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say "an uncertain farewell" to her as she surrenders her body. "We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?" These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book's narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing "the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth." Don DeLillo's seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant new novel weighs the darkness of the world-terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague-against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, "the intimate touch of earth and sun."

The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of one of the most iconic novels of our time-now in a dazzling graphic package Winner of the National Book Award, White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys-radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings-pulsing with life, yet suggesting something ominous.