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Ratner's Star by Don Delillo: Used
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1989-07-17
- Pages
- 448
- ISBN
- 9780679722922
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679722920
ISBN-13
9780679722922
eBay Product ID (ePID)
554904
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ratner's Star
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1989
Topic
Science Fiction / Alien Contact, Literary, Humorous / General
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
Vintage Contemporaries Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"[DeLillo's] most spectacularly inventive novel." -- The New York Times "A mind-expanding trip to the finish line, and full of wit and slapstick as well..." -- Washington Post Book World "Brilliantly...enormously ambitions.... Ratner's Star uses the story of an innocent's 'education' as the launching pad for a provocative, prodigious satire on those pioneers who journey beyond the frontiers of knowledge and end up more ignorant than they were when they set forth." -- Chicago Tribune Book World "This red giant of a book...is not only interesting, but funny (in a nervous kind of way)." -- The New York Times Book Review, "[DeLillo's] most spectacularly inventive novel." -- The New York Times "A mind-expanding trip to the finish line, and full of wit and slapstick as well..." -- Washington Post Book World "Brilliantly...enormously ambitions.... Ratner's Star uses the story of an innocent's 'education' as the launching pad for a provocative, prodigious satire on those pioneers who journey beyond the frontiers of knowledge and end up more ignorant than they were when they set forth." -- Chicago Tribune Book World "This red giant of a book...is not only interesting, but funny (in a nervous kind of way)." -- The New York Times Book Review
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Synopsis
"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." -- The New Yorker One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." -- The New York Times
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