{"id":18117,"date":"2016-06-15T07:59:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T12:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=18117"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T16:28:06","slug":"summer-reading-zero-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18117","title":{"rendered":"Summer Reading &#8211; Zero K"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/zerok.jpg\" alt=\"The cover of Don Delillo's Zero K: A Novel\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don Delillo&#8217;s latest science fiction work, <a href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:WW_VOY:UWI991015565293602133\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Zero K<\/em><\/a>, is his 16th novel and it looks to be another great one.<\/p>\n<p>Narrated by Jeff Lockhart, Ross Lockhart&#8217;s son from his first marriage, this is the novel about New York billionaire mover and shaker Ross and his much younger second wife Artis Martineau. They are a couple around which an existential dilemma revolves. She&#8217;s ailing and it looks like he&#8217;ll outlive her, which he really doesn&#8217;t want to do. Enter the &#8220;Convergence,&#8221; an amorphous organization that works towards preserving life through cryogenics, which Ross backs. They travel to the far off Soviet hinterland to see what the future might hold.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to <em>Zero K<\/em> by Don DeLillo. The excerpt is read by Thomas Sadoski.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ZERO K | AUDIO EXTRACT | by Don DeLillo\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eYo81gpEuAs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Delillo&#8217;s latest science fiction work, Zero K, is his 16th novel. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18117\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[919],"tags":[110728,110730,110729],"class_list":["post-18117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-reading","tag-don-delillo","tag-science-fiction-novels","tag-zero-k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18117"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18355,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18117\/revisions\/18355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}