Ratner's Star

Ratner's Star

by Don DeLillo
Ratner's Star

Ratner's Star

by Don DeLillo

Paperback(Reissue)

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Overview

"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." —The New Yorker

One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries).  

"His most spectacularly inventive novel." —The New York Times 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780679722922
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 07/17/1989
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 448
Sales rank: 461,283
Product dimensions: 5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work.

Hometown:

Westchester County, New York

Date of Birth:

November 20, 1936

Place of Birth:

New York City

Education:

Fordham University, 1958
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