{"product_id":"point-omega-paperback","title":"Point Omega - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Delillo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e can tell it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this potent and beautiful novel, the writer\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e calls \"prophetic about twenty-first-century America\" looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe see Richard Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by Elster's daughter Jessica--an \"otherworldly\" woman from New York. The three of them build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event turns detachment into colossal grief, and it is a human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a Netflix film, \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.43 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 14, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44900741021798,"sku":"9781439169964","price":24.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/bDVZV3BwOUZ5R0QrUVFMcFpiVUEyZz09.webp?v=1773036322","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/point-omega-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}