Yahoo Web Search

Search results

1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ratner's_StarRatner's Star - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ratner's_Star

   • Cached

   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.

   • Author: Don DeLillo

   • Publish Year: 1976

2. www.goodreads.com › book › showRatner's Star by Don DeLillo | Goodreads

   www.goodreads.com › book › show

   • Cached

   Jan 1, 1976 · Ratner’s Star is a prodigious satire on those pioneers who journey beyond the frontiers of knowledge and end up more ignorant than they were when they set forth. Billy, our Nobel Prize winning mathematical genius, is but a mere pup catapulted into an arena of world renown crazies and fellow mathematicians on a scary hyper-genius level.

   • 3.5/5 (2.2K)

   • Format: Paperback

3. www.penguinrandomhouse.com › books › 39026About Ratner’s Star - Penguin Random House

   www.penguinrandomhouse.com › books › 39026

   • Cached

   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 ...

   • Format: Paperback

4. www.amazon.com › Ratners-Star-Don-Delillo › dpRatner's Star: Delillo, Don: 9780679722922: Amazon.com: Books

   www.amazon.com › Ratners-Star-Don-Delillo › dp

   • Cached

   Jul 17, 1989 · 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.

   • 4/5 (88)
   • Author: Don DeLillo

   • Price: $16.95
   • Brand: Vintage

5. www.kirkusreviews.com › don-delillo › ratners-starRATNER'S STAR | Kirkus Reviews

   www.kirkusreviews.com › don-delillo › ratners-star

   • Cached

   Jun 4, 1976 · The author of Americana and End Zone has invented a futuristic, surrealistic research institute where the beauty and terror of pure science meets the absurdity of bureaucratic science and the paranoia of corporate applied science.

   • Author: Kirkus Reviews

6. www.amazon.com › Ratners-star-Don-DeLillo › dpRatner's star: DeLillo, Don: 9780394400839: Amazon.com: Books

   www.amazon.com › Ratners-star-Don-DeLillo › dp

   • Cached

   Jan 1, 1976 · Ratner's star Hardcover – January 1, 1976. by Don DeLillo (Author) 4.0 88 ratings. See all formats and editions. Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics.

   • Author: Don DeLillo

7. People also ask

   What is the plot of Ratner's star?

   • 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".

   Ratner's Star - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratner's_Star

   See all results for this question

   Who is Robert Ratner?

   • Ratner is a Democrat. Robert H. Tembeckjian, 71, of New York City, NY, has been appointed to the Committee to Review the Operations and Structure of the Commission on Judicial Performance.

   Governor Newsom Announces Appointments 2.23.22

   www.gov.ca.gov/2022/02/23/governor-newsom-announces-appointments-2-23-22/

   See all results for this question

   Who invented satire in Ratner's star?

   • In "Ratner's Star" his energies are turned to Menippean satire—an ancient form invented by a Greek Cynic philosopher and ex- slave, developed by Lucian and Petronius and Apuleius, revived by Erasmus and Rabelais, preserved by Swift and Lewis Carroll, Americanized in "Moby Dick" and "Invisible Man" and "The Dream Life of Balso Snell."

   Ratner's Star - The New York Times

   archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/16/lifetimes/del-r-ratner.html

   See all results for this question

   Who is Billy twillig in 'Ratner's star'?

   • The main mind in "Ratner's Star" is Billy Twillig, mathematician, specialist in zorgs, inventer of the stellated twilligon and the twillig nilpotent element, alumnus of the Center for the Refinement of Ideational Structures, Nobel laureate, a legend in his own time, but small for his age, which is 14.

   Ratner's Star - The New York Times

   archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/16/lifetimes/del-r-ratner.html

   See all results for this question

8. archive.nytimes.com › lifetimes › del-r-ratnerRatner's Star - The New York Times Web Archive

   archive.nytimes.com › lifetimes › del-r-ratner

   • Cached

   Lifetimes. June 20, 1976. Ratner's Star. By GEORGE STADE. RATNER'S STAR by Don DeLillo. on DeLillo's first three books had the feel of novels straining to be something else, of energies out of...