{"product_id":"point-omega-9781439169964","title":"Point Omega","description":"\u003cb\u003eA brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e can tell it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this potent and beautiful novel, the writer\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e calls \"prophetic about twenty-first-century America\" looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe see Richard Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by Elster's daughter Jessica--an \"otherworldly\" woman from New York. The three of them build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event turns detachment into colossal grief, and it is a human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439169964\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.26lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.43h x 5.54w x 0.34d","brand":"Don Delillo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42095641624757,"sku":"9781439169964","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ab6bd525-123a-4801-ba80-8cde1cdacd74.jpg?v=1651588580","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/point-omega-9781439169964","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}