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Ratner's Star is a 1976 novel by Don DeLillo. It relates the story of a child prodigy mathematician who arrives at a secret installation to work on the problem of deciphering a mysterious message that appears to come from outer space.
Jan 1, 1976 · 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. Genres Fiction Science Fiction Novels American Literature 20th Century Contemporary.
Apr 18, 2021 · Ratner's Star. by. DeLillo, Don. Publication date. 1991. Topics. Life on other planets -- Fiction, Teenagers -- Fiction, Life on other planets, Teenagers, 20th century general fiction. Publisher. Vintage (Random Century Group)
Dec 31, 2014 · Ratner's Star. by. Don DeLillo. Publication date. 1989-07-17. Topics. Modern fiction, Fiction - General, Fiction, Literary, Fiction / General. Publisher. Vintage.
Ratner’s Star uses the story of an innocent’s ‘education’ as the launching pad for a provocative, prodigious satire on those pioneers who journey beyond the frontiers of knowledge and end up more ignorant than they were when they set forth.”
May 19, 2016 · Ratner's Star. Don DeLillo. Paperback. Buy the book. 19 May 2016. Imprint: Picador. Synopsis. When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground.
May 19, 2016 · Written in Don DeLillo's characteristically mesmerizing prose, Ratner's Star is a brilliantly observed, funny and deeply thought-provoking novel which explores the mysterious, mind-blowing, mathematical world of the future.
