Cosmopolis

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Beschreibung

<p>'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br> Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target . . .<br><br> An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the American dream as Wolfe's <i>Bonfire</i> or Ellis's <i>Psycho</i>, <i>Cosmopolis</i> is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.<br><br> 'A prose-poem about New York . . . DeLillo has always been good at telling us where we're heading . . . we ignore him at our peril' Blake Morrison, <i>Guardian</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780330524933

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

195 x 130 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Verlag / Hersteller

Pan Macmillan