01839cam a2200301 i 4500 261774078 TxGeo 20160509120000.0 151106s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781501135392 hbk. 1501135392 hbk. TxGeo rda DeLillo, Don. Zero K : a novel / Don DeLillo. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York, NY : Scribner, 2016. 274 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say an uncertain farewell to her as she surrenders her body. We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn't it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate? These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book's narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth. 20160509. Fathers and sons Fiction. Rich people Fiction. Bioethics Fiction. Psychological fiction. QS5