![]() ![]() And then Elster's daughter Jessie visits - an "otherworldly" woman from New York - who dramatically alters the dynamic of the story. The two men sit on the deck, drinking and talking. Jim Finley wants to make a one-take film, Elster its single character - "Just a man against a wall." ![]() "I wanted a war in three lines."Īt the end of his service, Elster retreats to the desert, where he is joined by a filmmaker intent on documenting his experience. He was to conceptualize the war as a haiku. He was to map the reality these men were trying to create "Bulk and swagger," he called it. For two years he read their classified documents and attended secret meetings. They asked Elster to conceptualize their efforts - to form an intellectual framework for their troop deployments, counterinsurgency, orders for rendition. This was prompted by an article he wrote explicating and parsing the word "rendition". Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. ![]() In the middle of a desert "somewhere south of nowhere," to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war advisor has gone in search of space and time. ![]() Plot Īccording to the Scribner 2010 catalog made available on October 12, 2009, Point Omega concerns the following: It is DeLillo's fifteenth novel published under his own name and his first published work of fiction since his 2007 novel Falling Man. Point Omega is a short novel by the American author Don DeLillo that was published in hardcover by Scribner's on February 2, 2010. ![]()
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