PRODUCT OVERVIEW
- ISBN 9781451689396
- Categories [2022], BX, BXOS, Contemporary Fiction, F GEN, Fic20, Fiction
- Author(s) Don DeLillo
- Publisher Scribner Book Company
- Pages 209
- Format Paperback
- Dimensions 13.7cm x 1.3cm x 20.3cm
- Weight 0.205 kg
product description
It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism--when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments-- are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors--experts on security, technology, currency, finance and a few sexual partners--as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future.
"Cosmopolis," Don DeLillo's thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.