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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.
- Don DeLillo
- 2010
The Omega Point is a theorized future event in which the entirety of the universe spirals toward a final point of unification. The term was invented by the French Jesuit Catholic priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955). [1]
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 · “The omega point has narrowed, here and now, to the point of a knife as it enters a body. All the man's grand themes funnelled down to local grief, one body, out there somewhere, or not.” Is Elster's omega point the moment when he dies, and his grief and suffering come to an end?
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- Hardcover
Feb 5, 2010 · So longtime admirers will approach DeLillo’s new novel, “Point Omega,” with as much anxiety as excitement.
Feb 2, 2010 · About this book. More by this author. Freedom comically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire. An indelible and deeply moving portrait of our time.
Dec 14, 2010 · A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of White Noise and Underworld can tell it.
- Paperback
- Don DeLillo
