![]() ![]() The new environment affects him immediately: “The heat made me think I was shrinking but I wanted to remain a moment and look. “Zero K” begins with Jeff Lockhart, DeLillo’s narrator/protagonist, scanning the salt flats surrounding the compound where Artis, his stepmother, is in the final stages of life, multiple sclerosis and contingent ailments wasting her body away.ĭeplaning at this final stop after traveling by private jet from New York, Jeff has no idea where he’s arrived. Written in DeLillo’s coolly elegant prose and divided into two major sections, “Zero K” is a novel of ideas set in a world where the powerful rich wait out planetary degradation cryogenically preserved in storage pods. In his new novel, “Zero K,” Don DeLillo imagines both our lives in the digital present and our denial of death in the biotechnical near future. ![]()
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