He intoned liturgically." This is a novel that is good for thinking. The characters move about the rooms of a small house as if in a masque, speaking dialogue handed to them from above, and DeLillo even tells us this: "He chanted the words. In fact, its one dramatic event is a heavily outlined non-event. This is an aerated novel that wants to be a condensed, stylized short story, or maybe even a play. Truth be told, at 117 pages, it feels a little long. So I'm glad to report that Point Omega is a pleasure, if a fleeting one. I couldn't bring myself to read Falling Man. The Body Artist was puzzling and vaguely mortifying. But then something happened, and DeLillo's novels got a lot shorter and a lot less satisfying. Underworld felt like an enormous gift and I never wanted its 827 pages to end. I have been an ardent fan of Don DeLillo since college when White Noise first showed me what literature could make of our media-saturated age. I opened this book with some trepidation. A novella from the author of White Noise and Underworld
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