Richard Elster, nyní třiasedmdesátiletý, byl vědec, když ho vládní váleční stratégové najali aby vytvořil intelektuální rámec pro rozmísťování vojáků, zatýkací rozkazy apod. Dva roky četl tajné dokumenty a navštěvoval tajné schůzky... Zobraziť viac
Written in hypnotic prose, Don DeLillo's Point Omega is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a... Zobraziť viac
Právník, který se dostal z WTC, a vrací se ke své bývalé manželce. Mladý Arab Hammád, jeden z těch, kteří se zúčastnili výcvikového programu pro pilotování letadel. DeLillo nezaměnitelným způsobem zachycuje nejrůznější... Zobraziť viac
In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation which leads both of them ... Zobraziť viac
In the days and the years following, we trace the aftermath of this global tremor in the private lives of a few reticulated individuals... Zobraziť viac
Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 pm. Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. 'Libra' is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President ... Zobraziť viac
In the middle of a desert 'somewhere south of nowhere', to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war adviser has gone in search of space and time... Zobraziť viac
Vynikající román jednoho z klíčových amerických spisovatelů současnosti. Sonda do duše megapolisu stejně jako do psychiky člověka, který je zvyklý utrácet během vteřiny miliony. Nicméně ani svět „uvnitř“, tak bedlivě oddělený od toho reálného... Zobraziť viac
The play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold - in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour - our sense... Zobraziť viac
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life... Zobraziť viac
Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his... Zobraziť viac
Kniha nabízí průřez spisovatelovou tvorbou od konce sedmdesátých let do současnosti. V jistém smyslu přitom může sloužit jako úvod do DeLillova světa, najdeme v ní totiž většinu autorových erbovních témat: odcizení, paranoiu, obavu Zobraziť viac
In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their 'ideal' life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life... Zobraziť viac
Underworld opens – famously – at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants... Zobraziť viac
'DeLillo's early-career masterpiece . . . a dense, entertaining, mind-bending boomerang of a book that luxuriates in the language of math and science' LA Times... Zobraziť viac
DeLillo skates through a day in the life of a brilliant and precocious New Economy billionaire in this monotone 13th novel, a study in big money and affectlessness. As one character remarks, 28-year-old Eric Packer "wants to be one civilization... Zobraziť viac
This is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the... Zobraziť viac
Underworld follows the threads that link a symphonic cast of characters: men and women, together and apart, whose search for meaning, survival and connection will spill out over decades. Zobraziť viac
DeLillo skates through a day in the life of a brilliant and precocious New Economy billionaire in this monotone 13th novel, a study in big money and affectlessness... Zobraziť viac
