The silence, Don DeLillo ; read by Jay O. Sanders, Jeremy Bobb, Laurie Anderson, Marin Ireland, Michael Stuhlbarg and Robin Miles
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The silence, Don DeLillo ; read by Jay O. Sanders, Jeremy Bobb, Laurie Anderson, Marin Ireland, Michael Stuhlbarg and Robin Miles
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fiction
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The silence
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Don DeLillo ; read by Jay O. Sanders, Jeremy Bobb, Laurie Anderson, Marin Ireland, Michael Stuhlbarg and Robin Miles
Summary
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 for what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favourite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed. 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
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adult
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