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Synopsis

Don DeLillo's 13th novel focuses on a 28-year-old billionaire, Eric Packer, on one fateful day in his life. IIt's April, 2000, and Eric spends most of the day being driven around Manhattan in his limo. From the back seat, he weathers a series of disasters, both economic (the yen is rising when Eric bet on its fall) and local (he and his driver meet up with an anarchist group), commits an act of violence, lunches with his wife but has sex with two other women, and confronts the stalker who is plaguing him. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.

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