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Ratner's Star

	Ratner's Star Don DeLillo Vintage, 1989 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

DeLillo's funniest.

A hoot and a half: the main character, an adolescent astrophysics prodigy, is unique and immensely entertaining. His situation and surrounding cast of characters are preposterous. Reality takes a delicious beating, and the reader actually learns a little something about the construction of the universe, embedded seamlessly in the fun.

A Fine Novel Worth Checking Out

Don DeLillo fans should turn to this very fine novel after reading the more recent "White Noise and beyond" novels. Although it has all the master trademarks of great DeLillo writing--precision word choice, stunning images and complex ideas, in this case dealing with science and technology--in many ways it is unique among his works. The plot has been stripped bare, replaced by an almost Dickensian range of brilliantly drawn characters (many seen for only a few short pages), and all of it revolving around the main character, the prodigy child-mathematician. The novel is also perhaps the funniest next to "White Noise" and "End Zone" Be warned, this is one of those "big" novels but one you'll want to read again many times.

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