Don DeLillo. Stated first American edition. New York: Scribner: 2020. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Fine condition. No writing or markings found in the book which appears unread, 117 pp.
The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are at dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. There are a retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed. What follows is a dazzling and profoundly moving conversation about what makes us human. Never has the art of fiction been such an immediate guide to our navigation of a bewildering world.
DeLillo is a National Book Award, Jerusalem Prize, American Book Award, and William Dean Howell Medal Award winning author, and Man Booker and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee.
