Ratner's Star

About this book

"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New YorkerOne 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 emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries).  "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780679722922

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

July 17, 1989

Pages

448

Weight

13.6 oz

Subject

Fiction