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It is DeLillo's fifteenth novel published under his own name and his first published work of fiction since his novel Falling Man. According to the Scribner catalog [ 1 ] made available on October 12, , Point Omega concerns the following:. In the middle of a desert "somewhere south of nowhere," to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war advisor has gone in search of space and time.
Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. This was prompted by an article he wrote explicating and parsing the word "rendition". They asked Elster to conceptualize their efforts - to form an intellectual framework for their troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition.
For two years he read their classified documents and attended secret meetings. He was to map the reality these men were trying to create "Bulk and swagger," he called it.
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He was to conceptualize the war as a haiku. At the end of his service, Elster retreats to the desert, where he is joined by a filmmaker intent on documenting his experience. Jim Finley wants to make a one-take film, Elster its single character - "Just a man against a wall. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking.
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Finley makes the case for his film. Weeks go by. And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits - an "otherworldly" woman from New York - who dramatically alters the dynamic of the story.
Jessie is strange and detached but Elster adores her. Elster explains how she is of high intelligence and remarks that she can determine what people are saying in advance of hearing the words by reading lips. Jim is sexually drawn to her but nothing happens except his watching her as a voyeur would.
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After the most pointed of such behavior Jessie disappears without a trace. There are attempts to find her, and references to a boyfriend or acquaintance possibly named Dennis. Jessie's mother had sent her to the desert to get away from this man. In his review for Publishers Weekly , Dan Fesperman revealed that the Finley character is "a middle-aged filmmaker who, in the words of his estranged wife, is too serious about art but not serious enough about life" and compares Elster to "a sort of Bush -era Dr.
Strangelove without the accent or the comic props". DeLillo seldom explored in much depth as a younger writer. DeLillo made a series of rare public appearances in the run up to the release of Point Omega throughout September, October, and November , and was set to do more press publicity upon the novel's release. This event was "an evening of readings and response, [with] Members and friends of PEN read[ing] from the recently-released secret documents that have brought these abuses to light - memos, declassified communications, and testimonies by detainees - and will reflect on how [America] can move forward as a nation.
An extract from Point Omega was made available on the Simon and Schuster website on December 10, DeLillo made an unexpected appearance at a PEN event on the steps of the main branch of the New York City Public Library in support of Chinese dissident writer Liu Xiaobo , who was sentenced to eleven years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power" on December 31, Point Omega spent one week on the New York Times Bestseller List, peaking at 35 on the extended version of the list during its one-week stay on the list.
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Point Omega received generally positive reviews. An early mostly positive review appeared on the website of Publishers Weekly on December 21, DeLillo's lean prose is so spare and concentrated that the aftereffects are more powerful than usual". Further praise came from the literary review Kirkus Reviews , with its reviewer declaring the novel to be "an icy, disturbing and masterfully composed study of guilt, loss and regret - quite possibly the author's finest yet.
As with the Publishers Weekly review, Leigh Anne Vrabel's review for Library Journal highlighted the quality of DeLillo's prose, stating that it is "simultaneously spare and lyrical, creating a minimalist dreamworld that will please readers attuned to language and sound. An excellent nugget of thought-provoking fiction that pits life against art and emotion against intellect.