{"product_id":"the-silence-paperback-8","title":"The Silence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDon Delillo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the National Book Award-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a \"daring...provocative...exquisite\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) novel about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat follows is a \"brilliant and astonishing...masterpiece\" (\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e) about what makes us human. Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of the Covid pandemic. His language, the dazzle of his sentences offer a kind of solace in our bewildering world. \"DeLillo's shrewd, darkly comic observations about the extravagance and alienation of contemporary life can still slice like a scalpel\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we've come to rely on. \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e seems to absorb DeLillo's entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal.\" \u003cb\u003e--Rachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDon DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, which was made into a Netflix film, \u003ci\u003eLibra\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUnderworld\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFalling Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZero K\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN\/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection \u003ci\u003eThe Angel Esmeralda\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 05, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42161122017415,"sku":"9781982164560","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7d58977b8795be4c6101f374adcaec12.webp?v=1733278499","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-silence-paperback-8","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}