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'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' - "Sunday Times". 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' "Psycho", "Cosmopolis" is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized. 'A prose-poem about New York ...DeLillo has always been good at telling us where we're heading ...we ignore him at our peril' - Blake Morrison, "Guardian".

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Cosmopolis
• Author: Don DeLillo
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780330524933
• ISBN: 0330524933
• ID: 04355940
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Weight: 158 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 130 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. March 2011

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