{"product_id":"zero-k-9781501138072","title":"Zero K","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \"DeLillo's haunting new novel, \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e--his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJeffrey 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDon DeLillo's \"daring...provocative...exquisite\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo's long career\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.\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 05\/16\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501138072\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Don Delillo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36654834548892,"sku":"9781501138072","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_33ea751d-7fcf-47ab-8672-a62f0fecbb4c.jpg?v=1603884192","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/zero-k-9781501138072","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}