![]() ![]() In this compact and powerful novel, it is finally a lingering human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind. Then a devastating event throws everything into question. The three of them talk, train their binoculars on the landscape, and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Weeks later, Elster's daughter Jessica visits - an "otherworldly" woman from New York, who dramatically alters the dynamic of the story. Finley wants to persuade Elster to make a one-take film, Elster its single character - "Just a man and a wall." Written in hypnotic prose, Don DeLillos Point Omega is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one. There he is joined by a filmmaker, Jim Finley, intent on documenting his experience. ![]() He has retreated to the desert, "somewhere south of nowhere", in search of space and geologic time. Richard Elster was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a meeting with government war planners, asked to apply "ideas and principles to such matters as troop deployment and counterinsurgency". ![]() Now, in Point Omega, he looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual", one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine. ![]() In his earlier novels, he has written about conspiracy theory, the Cold War, and global terrorism. Don DeLillo has been "weirdly prophetic about 21st-century America" ( The New York Times Book Review). ![]()
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