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RATNER'S STAR, Knopf, 1976, first edition, about 1/3 of leaves with small bleed through to upper margin (never entering the text) from moisture droplet on blue dye t.p.e's, else just about fine in like dust-wrapper with one short closed tear.
Ratner’s Star is the fifth DeLillo novel I have read. Had it been my first, I may not have gotten very far. But with the previous books as a primer for DeLillo’s style, I was able to glean humor from those passages I may have otherwise taken for masturbatory drivel. Indeed, in this case, the absurdity is very much the point.
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1 de jan. de 1976 · Ratner's star Hardcover – January 1, 1976. Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space.
- Don DeLillo
20 de jun. de 1976 · In particular, they are trying to limn a glim from the area of Ratner's Star. It is a signal made up of 14 pulses, a gap, 28 pulses, a gap, 57 impulses—or 101 bits of information.
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One of DeLillo's first novels, Ratner's Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex ...
