{"product_id":"9781501138072","title":"Zero K: A Novel","description":"A \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, “DeLillo’s haunting new novel, \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e—his most persuasive since his astonishing 1997 masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), is a meditation on death and an embrace of life.\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say “an uncertain farewell” to her as she surrenders her body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn’t it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?” These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book’s narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing “the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon DeLillo’s “daring…provocative…exquisite” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) new novel weighs the darkness of the world—terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague—against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, “the intimate touch of earth and sun.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the most mysterious, emotionally moving, and rewarding books of DeLillo’s long career” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e is a glorious, soulful novel from one of the great writers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028988575984,"sku":"9781501138072","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781501138072_p0.jpg?v=1763777084","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781501138072","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}