Full name: Point Omega: A Novel

Author: Don DeLillo Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, War/Military, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781439169957 9781439169964 1439169950 1439169969

A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld can tell it. In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer The New York Times calls '€œprophetic about twenty-first-century America'€ looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war. We 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 '€œotherworldly'€ 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. Similar books: Dodsworth by Sinclair Lewis The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy The Dean's December by Saul Bellow Nexus by Henry Miller Bullet Park by John Cheever The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth Lancelot by Walker Percy Up Above the World by Paul Bowles The Flaming Corsage by William Kennedy The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth Set This House on Fire by William Styron An American Dream by Norman Mailer Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron An Adultery by Alexander Theroux A Rage to Live by John O'Hara In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien I'm Not Stiller by Max Frisch Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon Death in Captivity by Michael Gilbert The Care and Management of Lies by Jacqueline Winspear