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A New York Times Notable Book A New York Times bestseller, "DeLillo's haunting new novel, Zero K #8212;his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, Underworld " ( The New York Times ), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say "an uncertain farewell" to her as she surrenders her body. "We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?" These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book's narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing "the mingled astonishments of our time

Who reads Zero K : A Novel?

Author

DeLillo, Don

Publisher

Scribner

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501138058

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fantasy

Rating

3.23 / 5 (5,344 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14