Point Omega: A Novel

Point Omega: A Novel

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A brief, unnerving, and exceptionally hard-hitting novel about time and loss as only the bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of <i>White Noise</i> and <i>Underworld</i> can tell it.<br><br>In this potent and beautiful novel, the writer<i> The New York Times</i> calls €œprophetic about twenty-first-century America€ looks into the mind and heart of a scholar who was recruited to help the military conceptualize the war.<br> <br>We see Richard Elster at the end of his service. He has retreated to the desert, in search of space and geologic time. There he is joined by a filmmaker and by Elster€s daughter Jessica€"an €œotherworldly€ woman from New York. The three of them build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event turns detachment into colossal grief, and it is a human mystery that haunts the landscape of desert and mind.