
Point Omega
A Novel
Don DeLillo(Author)
Campbell Scott(Speaker)
Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)
Published on 2. February 2010
Audio
CD-Audio
3 pages
978-1-4423-0054-5 (ISBN)
Description
In the middle of a desert "somewhere south of nowhere," to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war advisor has gone in search of space and time. Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar-an outsider-when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. They asked Elster to conceptualize their efforts-to form an intellectual framework for their troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition. For two years he read their classified documents and attended secret meetings. He was to map the reality these men were trying to create. "Bulk and swagger," he called it. At the end of his service, Elster retreats to the desert, where he is joined by a filmmaker intent on documenting his experience. Jim Finley wants to make a one-take film, Elster its single character-"Just a man against a wall." The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Finley makes the case for his film. Weeks go by. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits-an "otherworldly" woman from New York-who dramatically alters the dynamic of the story. When a devastating event follows, all the men's talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and connection, is thrown into question.
What is left is loss, fierce and incomprehensible.
What is left is loss, fierce and incomprehensible.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Riverside
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Edition type
Unabridged edition
ISBN-13
978-1-4423-0054-5 (9781442300545)
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