Point Omega

Description

'"Point Omega" is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' - "Sunday Telegraph". Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, 'somewhere south of nowhere'. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young filmmaker intent on documenting his experience in a one-take film. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Weeks go by. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits. When a devastating event follows, all the men's talk, the accumulated meaning of conversation and isolation, is thrown into question. Written in hypnotic prose, this substantial novel is both a metaphysical meditation and a deeply unsettling mystery, from which one thing emerges: loss, fierce and incomprehensible. 'Another formidable construction by a very distinctive writer' - "Evening Standard". 'A pared, intense anti-parable ...so rigorous and so precise' - "Observer". 'Impossible to forget' - "Sunday Times".

Reviews

One of our greatest and most prophetic contemporary writers, DeLillo brings his laser-sharp awareness towards war and the role of the "defense intellectual". With his trademark creepy atmosphere and ability have you thinking about the book long after you have finished, he has written another winner in only 117 pages - Elisa, Book Grocer