Ratner's Star

Title: Ratner's Star
Author: Don Delillo
Fiction: 1693490
ISBN: 9780679722922
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1989
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reissue
Section: Fiction | Literary
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: "A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker

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 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