The silence / Don DeLillo.
Material type:
SoundPublisher number: 13393190 | AudioworksPublisher: New York, NY : Audioworks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Audio, [2020]Copyright date: ℗2020Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 2 audio discs (approximately 2 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - spoken word
- audio
- audio disc
- 9781797117607
- 1797117602
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Main Library | Audiobook | FICTION DELILLO, DON | Available | 33111009906609 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the National Book Award-winning author of Underworld , a "daring...provocative...exquisite" ( The Washington Post ) novel about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event.
It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity.
Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.
What follows is a "brilliant and astonishing...masterpiece" ( Chicago Tribune ) about what makes us human. Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of the Covid pandemic. His language, the dazzle of his sentences offer a kind of solace in our bewildering world. "DeLillo's shrewd, darkly comic observations about the extravagance and alienation of contemporary life can still slice like a scalpel" ( Entertainment Weekly ).
"In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we've come to rely on. The Silence seems to absorb DeLillo's entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal." --Rachel Kushner
Title from disc surface.
Read by Laurie Anderson, Jeremy Bobb, Marin Ireland, Robin Miles, Jay O. Sanders, Michael Stuhlberg.
Compact discs.
It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them after what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.