Cosmopolis

First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 209, [1]. Black cloth, stamped in silver to spine; navy endpapers.

Signed by Author to title page.

Delillo's thirteenth novel, dedicated to Paul Auster. A brutal dissection of the American dream, as a billionaire asset manager sits in stalled Manhattan traffic in his customized limo, intent on pursuing a cataclysmic bet against the yen, as the dot-com era is about to end. Basis for the David Cronenberg film, starring Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti, Juliette Binoche, and Samantha Morton, which premiered at Cannes in 2012. "A brilliant excursion into the decadence of contemporary culture." –Sunday Times