
Cosmopolis
Imprint: Picador
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 because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding,...
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224 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
America's greatest living writer.Observer
A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture.Sunday Times
A prose-poem about New York . . . DeLillo has always been good at telling us where we're heading . . . we ignore him at our peril.Blake Morrison, Guardian