{"product_id":"zero-k-3","title":"Don DeLillo: Zero K [2016] paperback","description":"\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon DeLillo's seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant novel \u003ci\u003eZero K \u003c\/i\u003eweighs 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Delillo, Don","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49164434047315,"sku":"9781509822836","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47287280009555,"sku":"XG81509822836","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/delillo-don-don-delillo-zero-k-2016-paperback-58064155607379.jpg?v=1732623778","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/zero-k-3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}