“DeLillo’s most affecting novel yet...A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“The clearest vision yet of what it felt like to live through that day.” —Malcolm Jones, Newsweek
“A metaphysical ghost story about a woman alone…intimate, spare, exquisite.” —Adam Begley, The New York Times Book Review
“A brilliant new novel....Don DeLillo continues to think about the modern world in language and images as quizzically beautiful as any writer.” — San Francisco Chronicle
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"Oh, DeLillo, your seem to break my heart every other book, and piss me off with the ones in between. For me, it's he and Nabokov for beautiful prose. Man, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is just an awful book. " — Brett (5 out of 5 stars)
"Oh, DeLillo, your seem to break my heart every other book, and piss me off with the ones in between. For me, it's he and Nabokov for beautiful prose. Man, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is just an awful book. "
“DeLillo’s most affecting novel yet…A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art.”
“A metaphysical ghost story about a woman alone…intimate, spare, exquisite.”
“A brilliant new novel…Don DeLillo continues to think about the modern world in language and images as quizzically beautiful as any writer.”
“The clearest vision yet of what it felt like to live through that day.”
" pretty good, different than other Delillo books I've read "
" Perhaps I need to go back and reread it and devote more time to it, but I don't think I entirely understood what was going on... "
" Ugh. The only reason I finished the book is because it was so short. "
" This is a very small book that I hardly recall reading. I gave this rating three stars, but I may have enjoyed it a little more than that. "
Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels which have won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.
Jeremy Bobb is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and an accomplished actor whose film credits include The Knick, Godless, Mosaic, and The Wolf of Wall Street. He has performed in numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Is He Dead? and Cactus Flower.
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