Cosmopolis by Don Delillo.
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.
This novel has occasional lyrical power and is richly cerebral. The author presents a world stumbling inexorably toward the apocalypse and a protagonist bent on his own self-destruction. While reasons emerge in abundance for the social collapse, we are left to guess why the protagonist, the ultimate alpha-male narcissist, has decided to deepen the chaos and engineer his own ruin.
Paperback. 2004.
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