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Don DeLillo · 2010 · Novel

Synopsis

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.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: American fiction (fictional works by one author)Fathers and sons, fictionFiction, psychologicalFiction, family lifeFiction, humorousFiction, humorous, generalRich peopleFictionFathers and sonsBioethics

isfdb_id: 2025494

openlibrary_id: OL20693558W

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