Don DeLillo

In The Body Artist, author Don DeLillo focuses on a single life, a single death. This bestselling novella is -obscure, poetic, lean, earthy, more than slightly warped. After her husband's suicide, performance artist Lauren Hartke meets up with a kind of autistic savant who resonates with her past. She explores him, emphasizing intimacy and sensuality. Could he be the ghost of her late husband?

The richest, wisest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don Delillo, one of the great American novelists of our time -- an ode to language, the heart of our humanity; a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a George Soros-like billionaire now in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a deeply remote and secret compound where death is controlled...

At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a top television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And then the dream -- and the dream-making -- become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality.

Three unusual people--"defense intellectual" Richard Elster, who was involved in the management of the country's war machine; young documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who is intent on documenting Elster's experience; and Elster's daughter Jessica, who behaves like an "otherworldly" woman from New York--train their binoculars on the desert landscape of California and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws...

"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 more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple. And still they remain untouched,...

Geschichten, geschrieben zwischen 1979 und 2011, Chronik und Prophezeiung: Die Karibik, Griechenland, Manhattan, ein Gefängnis für Wirtschaftsdelikte und das Weltall sind die Schauplätze. Unsere paranoide Gegenwart durch das Brennglas eines Visionärs. Es gibt keinen Dichter des US amerikanischen Sprachraums, der mit solcher Lakonie so viel Spannung und Geheimnis aufbauen kann. Beim Hören dieser Geschichten verändert sich die literarische Erdoberfläche,...

Ein tief verstörendes, brillantes Werk über Verlust und Verschwinden Irgendwo "südlich von Nirgendwo" lebt Richard Elster in einem einsam gelegenen Haus und denkt über Raum und Zeit nach. Zwei Jahre lang hatte er der amerikanischen Regierung als geheimer Berater für den Irakkrieg gedient und sich dann in die Wüste zurückgezogen. Dort besucht ihn ein junger Filmemacher, der ihn für eine Dokumentation gewinnen möchte. Auch Elsters Tochter...

Lauren is an artist living on a lonely coast, in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her own life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time--time, love and human perception.