Since the publication of his first novel, in 1971, he has been acknowledged across the world as one of the greatest writers of his generation. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular, his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful, prescient, perceptive. When a devastating event follows, all the men's talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. The short book recounts the tale of Richard Elster, a scholar who served in the military to write about the war. Released in 2010, it is DeLillos fifteenth published work. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits. Point Omega is a novella written by American novelist and playwright Don DeLillo. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film. Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, 'somewhere south of nowhere'. Point Omega by Don DeLillo 3.7 (24) Paperback 16.00 Paperback 16.00 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0. Or rather, temporalities, with their varying pace and scale- biographical, historical, cosmological- and their different reverberations in human per- ception: especially in that enhanced form, artistic representation. Written in hypnotic prose, Don DeLillo's Point Omega is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible. From beginning to end, temporality is the main concern in Point Omega.
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