{"product_id":"cosmopolis-9780330412766","title":"Cosmopolis","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Publishers Weekly DeLillo skates through a day in the life of a brilliant and precocious New Economy billionaire in this monotone 13th novel  a study in big money and affectlessness. As one character remarks  28-year-old Eric Packer \"wants to be one civilization ahead of this one.\" But on an April day in the year 2000  Erics fortune and life fall apart. The story tracks him as he traverses Manhattan in his stretch limo. His goal: a haircut at Anthonys  his fathers old barber. But on this day his driver has to navigate a presidential visit  an attack by anarchists and a rappers funeral. Meanwhile  the yen is mounting  destroying Erics bet against it. The catastrophe liberates Erics destructive instinct-he shoots another character and increases his bet. Mostly  the action consists of sequences in the back of the limo (where he stages meetings with his doctor  various corporate officers and a New Economy guru) interrupted by various pit stops. He lunches with his wife of 22 days  Elise Shifrin. He has sex with two women  his art consultant and a bodyguard. He is hit in the face with a pie by a protester. He knows he is being stalked  and the novel stages a final convergence between the ex-tycoon and his stalker. DeLillo practically invented the predominant vernacular of the late 90s (the irony  the close reading of consumer goods  the mock complexity of technobabble) in White Noise  but he seems surprisingly disengaged here. His spotlighted New Economy icon  Eric  doesnt work  either as a genius financier (he is all about gadgetry  not exchange-theres no love of the deal in his \"frozen heart\") or a thinker. The threats posed by the contingencies that he faces cannot lever him out of his recalcitrant one-dimensionality. DeLillo is surely an American master  but this time out  he is doodling. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information  Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648142008373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0330412760","price":53.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780330412766.jpg?v=1781710834","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/cosmopolis-9780330412766","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}