{"product_id":"zero-k","title":"Zero K","description":"\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoss 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDon DeLillo's seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant new novel weighs the darkness of the world-terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague-against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, \"the intimate touch of earth and sun.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Don Delillo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46770409406633,"sku":"9781509822836","price":9.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781509822836.jpg?v=1769647960","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/zero-k","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}