{"product_id":"zero-k-book-don-delillo-9781501138072","title":"Zero K","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, DeLillo's haunting new novel, \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e--his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeffrey 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe 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, here, on earth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDon DeLillo's daring.provocative.exquisite (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) new novel weighs the darkness of the world--terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague--against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, the intimate touch of earth and sun. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo's long career (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49858923495697,"sku":"CIN1501138073G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50131125469457,"sku":"CIN1501138073A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50431465816337,"sku":"CIN1501138073VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51031014539537,"sku":"NIN9781501138072","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1501138073.jpg?v=1751116780","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/zero-k-book-don-delillo-9781501138072","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}