{"product_id":"9781982164553","title":"The Silence : A Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Don DeLillo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling novel set in the near future about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of Covid-19. \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer a mysterious solace.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein’s 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What follows is a dazzling and profoundly moving conversation about what makes us human. Never has the art of fiction been such an immediate guide to our navigation of a bewildering world. Never have DeLillo’s prescience, imagination, and language been more illuminating and essential.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Mysterious...Unexpectedly touching...[DeLillo offers] consolation simply by enacting so well the mystery and awe of the real world.”\u003cb\u003e —Joshua Ferris, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “DeLillo [has] almost Dayglo powers as a writer.” —\u003cb\u003eMichiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Brilliant and astonishing…a masterpiece…manages to renew DeLillo’s longstanding obsessions while also striking deeply and swiftly at the reader’s emotions…The effect is transcendent.” \u003cb\u003e—Charles Finch, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Daring... provocative... exquisite...captures the swelling fears of our age.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for THE SILENCE:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"DeLillo . . . creates a powerful rendering of a crowd unified by a terrifying event that defies all available models of comprehension.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"[Readers] will find something poignant and terrible in this strange unbroken silence.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Michael Gorra, \u003ci\u003eNY Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[DeLillo] isolate[s] the raw material of the form, the language, through speech fragments and monologues, in the same way a painter might with color ... It’s an ability of DeLillo’s both philosophic and poetic, to stare at the familiar thing, to see the familiar new…” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Alexander Sammartino, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"DeLillo's prose is always supple, his gaze into our culture's black hole as penetrating as ever. Equal parts lush and spare, \u003ci\u003eThe Silence \u003c\/i\u003enever settles for easy answers.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Hamilton Cain, \u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star-Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"DeLillo's shrewd, darkly comic observations about the extravagance and alienation of contemporary life can still slice like a scalpel.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Leah Greenblatt, \u003ci\u003eEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “To read DeLillo is to engage in a process wherein the author’s clarity forces our own...He treats the topical...as a yearning for commonality, mutuality, something to share...He wants to tell us not just what is, but how it feels, and It’s this ability to describe the moment’s emotion that constitutes his genius.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Joshua Cohen, \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"It is in his deft handling of the novel event's consequences—the space he creates in the wake of disruption—that DeLillo achieves his most profound effects.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—M. C. Armstrong, \u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"This masterfully written tale is compelling, timely and utterly eye-opening.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Kami Phillips, \u003ci\u003eCNN Underscored\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “DeLillo is the premiere 'writer’s writer'…He…returns with new language, reconstructing sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph true-feeling motifs about how all of this works.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Lauren Michele Jackson, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSsense\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The American master’s latest work of fiction...\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—AV Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we've come to rely on. \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e seems to absorb DeLillo's entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Rachel Kushner\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"A swift and searing haunting of a novel. An encapsulation of our continuing crisis of aberration and pause. \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is prime DeLillo.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Joy Williams\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"DeLillo (Zero K) applies his mastery of dialogue to a spare, contemplative story...In the end, readers gain the timely insight that some were born ready for disaster while others remain unequipped...the work stands out among DeLillo’s short fiction.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Publisher's Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"Don DeLillo has written about America in the 20th century so acutely and capaciously that he's become a fixed star in our literary firmament. . . . . His work is darkly funny . . . [The Silence] is a powerful, short novel.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eCarolyn Kellogg, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"[DeLillo] is our laureate of paranoia and dread, a man who fully tapped into the mood of his age, as vital at his peak as any writer alive. . . . [The Silence] is a pristine disaster novel. . . . [H]is best writing here reminds us that, as he puts it . . .  'Life can get so interesting that we forget to be afraid.'\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eDwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"Shrewd . . . . It’s tempting to view \u003ci\u003eThe Silence \u003c\/i\u003eas reflective of the COVID-19 era, but it’d be wrong. . . . In spite of its short length, it gets at something deeper and, in its emphasis on where individuals choose to direct their attention, something more quintessentially American. If you were magically freed from all your digital obligations, how would you occupy yourself? If you had the option, would you choose it?\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eJ. Howard Rosier\u003ci\u003e, Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “DeLillo delights in, rather than despairs over, the absurdities of modern experience...As an oenophile loves wine, Don DeLillo loves words . . The field of language is the real setting of \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"Surging forth at full throttle before settling down to seated stillness, \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is a dark and luminous, amusing and devastating theater of systemic shocks and confluent paradoxes. . . . DeLillo is often lauded as something of a soothsayer, and \u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, an engrossing addition to his oeuvre, is sure to add credence to that reputation.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003ePaul D'Agostino\u003ci\u003e, Hyperallergic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “An apocalyptic novel for our times”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, Book of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eThe Silence\u003c\/i\u003e is a horrifyingly resonant book”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “DeLillo is a master stylist, and not a word goes to waste.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Enright, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Few people write as gorgeously as DeLillo can”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"THE SILENCE celebrates the muted hysteria of intelligent human beings in the face of universal calamity.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eGraham Robb, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781982164553\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40592056942798,"sku":"9781982164553","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_84a682c6-dfae-451d-a413-f9b0702c2ae9.jpg?v=1637762231","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781982164553","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}