Ratner's Star
By Don DeLillo
1976
First Published
3.47
Average Rating
448
Number of Pages
Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space.
Avg Rating
3.47
Number of Ratings
2,298
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
31%
2 STARS
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1 STARS
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Author
Don DeLillo
Author · 27 books
Don DeLillo is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives outside of New York City. Among the most influential American writers of the past decades, DeLillo has received, among author awards, a National Book Award (White Noise, 1985), a PEN/Faulkner Award (Mao II, 1991), and an American Book Award (Underworld, 1998). DeLillo's sixteenth novel, Point Omega, was published in February, 2010.
