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A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind. --The New Yorker

One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries).  

His most spectacularly inventive novel. --The New York Times 

Ratners Star Vintage Contemporaries

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A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind. --The New YorkerOne of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the... Read more

    Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
    Publication Date: 7/17/1989 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780679722922, 978-0679722922
    ISBN10: 0679722920

    Number of Pages: 448

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    A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind. --The New Yorker

    One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner's Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo's later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries).  

    His most spectacularly inventive novel. --The New York Times 

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