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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.
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Feb 2, 2010 · Point Omega. Don DeLillo. 3.45. 9,396 ratings998 reviews. Don DeLillo looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual," one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine. Don DeLillo has been "weirdly prophetic about twenty-first-century America" (The New York Times Book Review).
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Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2010. Plot Summary. 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.
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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Feb 5, 2010 · Don DeLillo explores the radical manipulation of time in this novel, which brings an Iraq war planner, his daughter and a filmmaker together at a house in the desert.
Book Summary. Don DeLillo looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual," one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine. Don DeLillo has been "wierdly prophetic about twenty-first-century America" (The New York Times Book Review).
Feb 3, 2010 · Don DeLillo, whose new novel, “Point Omega,” came out on Tuesday, is not exactly a Pynchonesque recluse. He travels, sees friends, gives readings occasionally. People know what he looks like:...
