{"product_id":"zero-k-2","title":"Don Delillo: Zero K [2016] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeffrey 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon DeLillo's seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant novel \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Delillo, Don","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44611221127458,"sku":"9781509822850","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":53875699220819,"sku":"XV81509822850","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/delillo-don-don-delillo-zero-k-2016-hardback-9781509822850-60561110335827.jpg?v=1780064200","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/zero-k-2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}