03192cam a2200313 4500 528212188 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781508211792 1508211795 9961a899-4a6e-4eb2-9285-89da26c0cfa1 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2381212 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib DeLillo, Don. Zero K [Libby Audiobook]. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2016. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 214MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 214MB. HTML:<b>A <i>New York Times</i> Notable Book</b><br /> <br /> A <i>New York Times</i> bestseller, "DeLillo's haunting new novel, <i>Zero K</i>—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, <i>Underworld</i>" (<i>The New York Times</i>), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life.<br /> Jeffrey 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.<br /> <br /> "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?" These 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."<br /> <br /> Don DeLillo's "daring...provocative...exquisite" (<i>The Washington Post</i>) new novel weighs 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."<br /> <br /> "One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo's long career" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>), <i>Zero K</i> is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Sadoski, Thomas. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/2381212-ZeroK.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9961a899-4a6e-4eb2-9285-89da26c0cfa1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/2381212-ZeroK.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=9961a899-4a6e-4eb2-9285-89da26c0cfa1&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)