- Psychological fiction, Self-destructive behavior, Fiction, Murder victims
"Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town.". "His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors - his experts on security, technology, currency, finance and theory. Sometimes he leaves the car for sexual encounters and sometimes he doesn't have to."--BOOK JACKET.
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Contemporary, cool, prestige and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Don DeLillo
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 223
- Publisher
- Kineret, Simon & Schuster, Incorporated, Everest Yayınları
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- Polish, heb, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9780743244251
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Donald Richard DeLillo (Don DeLillo) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist, DeLillo's works centers on subjects as diverse as TV, nuclear war, sports, language, performance art, the Cold War, the digital age, politics, economics, and terrorism.
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