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Point Omega is a short novel by the American author Don DeLillo that was published in hardcover by Scribner's on February 2, 2010. It is DeLillo's fifteenth novel published under his own name and his first published work of fiction since his 2007 novel Falling Man.
- Don DeLillo
- 2010
The Omega Point is a theorized future event in which the entirety of the universe spirals toward a final point of unification. The term was invented by the French Jesuit Catholic priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955). [1] .
Point Omega is a novella by Don Delillo that explores dread, paranoia, death, and violence. The book follows three main characters: former defensive intellectual Elster, film-maker Finley, and Elster’s troubled adult daughter, Jessie.
www.nytimes.com · 2010/02/07 · booksBook Review | 'Point Omega,' by Don DeLillo - The New York Times
Feb 5, 2010 · So longtime admirers will approach DeLillo’s new novel, “Point Omega,” with as much anxiety as excitement.
Feb 2, 2010 · Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar an outsider when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. They asked Elster to conceptualize their efforts to form an intellectual framework for their troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition.
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- Don DeLillo
- Don DeLillo
Feb 2, 2010 · About this book. More by this author. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. An indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
Feb 18, 2010 · DeLillo is a postmodernist, which makes him, perhaps, perfectly suited to what looks to be an increasingly surreal, paranoid era in American history. His latest novel, Point Omega, is short,...
