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Ratner's Star is a 1976 novel by Don DeLillo. It relates the story of a child prodigy mathematician who arrives at a secret installation to work on the problem of deciphering a mysterious message that appears to come from outer space. The novel has been described as "famously impenetrable".
- Don DeLillo
- 438 pp (hardback first edition)
- 1976
- June 1976
Jan 1, 1976 · 2,231 ratings233 reviews. Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space.
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Jun 4, 1976 · RATNER'S STAR. by Don DeLillo ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 4, 1976. bookshelf. shop now. Billy Pilgrim, meet Billy Twillig—no Vonnegutian unstuck-in-time traveler, but another lugubrious pubescent hero beset by strange experiences having to do with extraterrestrial contact and space-time distortion.
- Kirkus Reviews
May 19, 2016 · Written in Don DeLillo's characteristically mesmerizing prose, Ratner's Star is a brilliantly observed, funny and deeply thought-provoking novel which explores the mysterious, mind-blowing, mathematical world of the future. Print length. 447 pages. Language. English. Sticky notes. On Kindle Scribe. Publisher. Picador. Publication date. May 19, 2016
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- Don DeLillo
Apr 18, 2021 · Ratner's Star. by. DeLillo, Don. Publication date. 1991. Topics. Life on other planets -- Fiction, Teenagers -- Fiction, Life on other planets, Teenagers, 20th century general fiction. Publisher. Vintage (Random Century Group)
Billy is summoned to the center to decode a mysterious radio signal that scientists believe is coming from a planet orbiting Ratner’s star. The signal is fourteen pulses, gap, twenty-eight ...
About Ratner’s Star. “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 ...
