Cosmopolis: A Novel by Don DeLillo
First edition
Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving.
Cosmopolis: A Novel by Don DeLillo
Format: First edition, hardcover
Condition: Fine in very good plus dust jacket. Dust jacket has light edge creases and previous price sticker discoloration.
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Publishing Info: Scribner, New York, 2003
Language: English
ISBN - 13: 9780743244244
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Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors - his experts on security, technology, currency, finance and theory. Sometimes he leaves the car for sexual encounters and sometimes he doesn't have to...
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