Cosmopolis (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)

Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target . . . An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the American dream as Wolfe's Bonfire or Ellis's Psycho, Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.

General

Imprint:	Picador
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2011
First published:	March 2011
Authors:	Don DeLillo
Dimensions:	198 x 130 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	208
Edition:	Main Market Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-330-52493-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-330-52493-3
Barcode:	9780330524933

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