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Cosmopolis is a novel by American writer Don DeLillo. His thirteenth novel, it was published by Scribner on April 14, 2003. Plot summary. Cosmopolis is the story of Eric Packer, a 28-year-old multi-billionaire and asset manager who makes an odyssey across midtown Manhattan to get a haircut.
Jan 1, 2003 · Don DeLillo. 3.26. 17,612 ratings1,641 reviews. It is a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. A violent protest is being staged by anti-globalist groups and Eric fears that he may be a target.
Apr 6, 2004 · Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.
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In his novel, Cosmopolis (2003), Don DeLillo employs an affectless, disengaged style as a commentary on the insular, self-centered modern life, buffered by technology, but disconnected from the world around itself. The story begins in billionaire Eric Packer’s forty-eight-room apartment.
Apr 1, 2003 · Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.
Mar 25, 2003 · DeLillo skates through a day in the life of a brilliant and precocious New Economy billionaire in this monotone 13th novel, a study in big money and affectlessness. As one character remarks, 28-year-old Eric Packer "wants to be one civilization ahead of this one."
Cosmopolis: A Novel. Don DeLillo. Simon and Schuster, 2003 - Fiction - 209 pages. It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end -- those booming times of market optimism when...
Apr 1, 2003 · Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.
An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the...
Mar 4, 2011 · Synopsis. Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill ...
Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.
Aug 9, 2010 · Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors - his experts on security, technology, currency, finance and theory.
Apr 14, 2003 · COSMOPOLIS. by Don DeLillo ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 14, 2003. High finance, terrorism and paranoia, and various new technologies, all are targets in DeLillo’s darkly satirical latest: a bleakly funny footnote to such earlier anatomies of contemporary malaise as The Names (1982), White Noise (1985), and Mao II (1991).
Sep 23, 2011 · Cosmopolis. Kindle Edition. Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut.
Aug 24, 2012 · Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg’s film version of Don DeLillo’s character-driven novel of the same name, is one of the best book adaptations in recent memory.
Don Delillo This Study Guide consists of approximately 36 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Cosmopolis. Print Word PDF
Apr 6, 2004 · Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo’s thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.
Jul 1, 2019 · Cosmopolis is cerebral and uncomfortable, but it is in the best way possible for a Don DeLillo novel. Prescient for its 2003 release, it confronts the reader with an idea of success that feels too close to home in this day and age, only to shine a light on it that’s no so kind.
Cosmopolis is a 2012 drama film written, produced, and directed by David Cronenberg. It stars Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti, Samantha Morton, Sarah Gadon, Mathieu Amalric, Juliette Binoche, Jay Baruchel and Kevin Durand. It is based on Don DeLillo's 2003 novel.
Apr 17, 2019 · Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo. Written just after 9-11, and as a writer in love with his city, DeLillo continues his ode to New York with this book, based around the life of a young rich businessman Eric Packer as he gets stuck in various traffic jams in his limo.
