The Silence
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pan Macmillan
Published:14th Oct '21
Should be back in stock very soon
Don DeLillo will have something to say this November about fear and isolation...
Don DeLillo completed The Silence just weeks before the devastating advent of Covid-19. This timely and compelling novel is the story of a different catastrophic event.
'An apocalyptic novel for our times' – Guardian
'Horrifyingly resonant' – Observer
Superbowl Sunday, 2022. A couple wait in their Manhattan apartment for their final dinner guests to arrive. The game is about it start. The missing guests' flight from Paris should have landed by now.
Suddenly, screens go blank. Phones are dead. Is this the end of civilization? All anybody can do is wait.
From one of America’s greatest writers, The Silence is a timely and compelling novel about what happens when an unpredictable crisis strikes.
'The Silence is Don DeLillo distilled . . . a straight shot of the good stuff' – Spectator
An apocalyptic novel for our times * Guardian, Book of the Week *
The Silence is a horrifyingly resonant book * Observer *
Slim and timely * New Statesman *
[DeLillo] is our laureate of paranoia and dread . . . [The Silence] is a pristine disaster novel . . . his best writing
here reminds us that, as he puts it . . . “Life can get so interesting that we forget to be afraid”
DeLillo’s mastery of the fragmented nature of spoken language is displayed in these paranoiac
blurts, which every years seem less paranoiac . . . [a] brilliant, brief tale
DeLillo is a master stylist, and not a word goes to waste -- Anne Enright * Guardian *
Few people write as gorgeously as DeLillo can * Daily Telegraph *
The Silence is DeLillo distilled . . . a straight shot of the good stuff * Spectator *
A swift and searing haunting of a novel. An encapsulation of our continuing crisis of aberration and pause. The Silence is prime DeLillo. -- Joy Williams
In this wry and cutting meditation on collective loss, a rupture severs us, suddenly, from everything we’ve come to rely on. The Silence seems to absorb DeLillo’s entire body of work and sand it into stone or crystal. -- Rachel Kushner
ISBN: 9781529057102
Dimensions: 196mm x 131mm x 11mm
Weight: 112g
144 pages