description: 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.Today he is a man with two to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral, and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors—experts on security, technology, currency, finance, and a few sexual partners—as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future.Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo's thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.
language: English
title: Cosmopolis
titlecomplete: Cosmopolis
characters: Benno Levin, Eric Packer, Elise Shifrin, Torval
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Americana, Drama, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, New York, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 17096
publisher: SCRIBNER