Cosmopolis
Subtitle: a novel
By: Don DeLillo.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Young men -- Fiction.; Murder victims -- Fiction.; Foreign exchange market -- Fiction.; Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town.".

"His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors - his experts on security, technology, currency, finance and theory. Sometimes he leaves the car for sexual encounters and sometimes he doesn't have to."--BOOK JACKET.