Zero K Av Don Delillo

<p>Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled.<br><br>He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, who has chosen to surrender her dying body; preserving it until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return her to a life of transcendent promise. <br><br>And his healthy father, Ross, might join her.<br><br><b>Hypnotic and seductive, Don DeLillo''s <i>Zero K </i>is a visionary novel about the legacies we leave, the nobility of death, and the ultimate worth of ''the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.''</b></p>