Five people gather in a Manhattan apartment on Super Bowl Sunday 2022 as a catastrophic event severs all digital connections, prompting reflections on technology, language, and humanity.
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Five people gather in a Manhattan apartment on Super Bowl Sunday 2022 as a catastrophic event severs all digital connections, prompting reflections on technology, language, and humanity.
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Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of COVID-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer a mysterious solace. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them after what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in north...
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Plane crash-landing referenced without graphic detail
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Brief mention of a favorite brand of bourbon
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Explores technocapitalism and its effects on individuals
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