Cosmopolis

Title: Cosmopolis Author: Don Delillo ISBN: 9780743244251 Publisher: Scribner Published: 2004 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Condition Note: New from the publisher Fiction: 1693499 Section: Fiction | Literary Publisher Description: From the bestselling author of White Noise comes a riveting exploration on wealth as a man's life gradually falls to pieces over the course of one day--now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson. It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism--when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments-- are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. To