Cosmopolis - Softcover

'A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture' - "Sunday Times". Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the city at a virtual standstill because the President is visiting, a rapper's funeral is proceeding, and a violent protest is being staged in Times Square by anti-globalist groups. Most worryingly, Eric's bodyguards are concerned that he may be a target ...An electrifying study in affectlessness, infused with deep cynicism and measured detachment; a harsh indictment of the life-denying tendencies of capitalism; as brutal a dissection of the American dream as Wolfe's "Bonfire" or Ellis' "Psycho", "Cosmopolis" is a caustic prophecy all too quickly realized. 'A prose-poem about New York ...DeLillo has always been good at telling us where we're heading ...we ignore him at our peril' - Blake Morrison, "Guardian".

Es autor de las novelas Americana (1971), End Zone (1972), Great Jones Street (1973), Ratner’s Star (1976), Jugadores (1977; Seix Barral, 2004), Fascinación (1978), Los nombres (1982), Ruido de fondo (1985; Seix Barral, 2006), Libra (1988; Seix Barral, 2006), Mao II (1991; Seix Barral, 2008), Body art (2001), Cosmópolis (Seix Barral, 2003) y El hombre del salto (Seix Barral, 2007); de los ensayos En las ruinas del futuro (2002) y Contrapunto (2004; Seix Barral, 2005); de relatos publicados en diferentes revistas, y de varias obras teatrales. Ha recibido numerosos galardones en Estados Unidos y en el extranjero, incluidos el National Book Award, el PEN/Faulkner Award, el International Fiction Prize del Irish Times, el Premio Jerusalén a la totalidad de su obra literaria y la medalla Howells de la American Academy of Arts and Letters por su novela Submundo. Su obra, aclamada por público y crítica en todo el mundo, es un referente indispensable. Es, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los escritores norteamericanos más relevantes de la actualidad.