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 novel Zero K 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."
Book Details
| Number of Pages: | 288 Pages |
| Bar Code: | 9781509822836 |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
