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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 . . . 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 Bonfire or Ellis's Psycho, Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized.
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Clever and stylish but not a book I enjoyed reading and I felt that it went over my head. Part of me wishes I could be more positive as there were parts of the book I admired, but then I found myself rushing to the end and there were parts of the writing style I found quite off-putting at times. Maybe not the best introduction to this author's work for me.
Il mio primo libro di DeLillo e il giudizio finale non può che essere positivo. Ammetto che all'inizio ho un po faticato ad entrare nell'assurda storia ma il ritmo cresce ed i personaggi che interagiscono con il protagonista sono sempre più interessanti cosi come i dialoghi.
Sicuramente no un libro facile, all'inizio molto criptico ma piacevole da leggere e in grado in più punti di stupire e far riflettere.
Sicuramente continuerò a leggere questo Autore.
Frustrating. Flashes of brilliance, but mainly actions with no consistent motivation.