5/28/2023 0 Comments Don delillo zero k review![]() And then there is the true tale of baseball legend Ted Williams’s head, sliced off after his death by a shady outfit in Arizona that subsequently stored it in a nitrogen tank-where it still remains, despite rumors of abuse by the staff. Clarke to Woody Allen’s Sleeper and Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. If this sounds like a familiar premise, it’s because deep-freezing humans has been a staple of science fiction for decades, from the work of Arthur C. Pay the right price for a cryonic pod and you too can slip into a heavy slumber until medicine finds a cure for what’s killing you, after which you will be thawed, treated, and sent off to live in deathless splendor in tomorrow’s gated utopia. The rich, after all, learned long ago to evade the latter with offshore accounts and IRS loopholes, but in Zero K, the wealthiest have also, possibly, dodged mortality, that ultimate drag. Among many delights, Don DeLillo’s extraordinary new novel offers a bracing revision of our certitude about death and taxes. ![]()
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