‘A whimsical, surrealistic excursion in to the modern scientific mind.’ -The New Yorker

‘His most spectacularly inventive novel.’ -The New York Times

Among DeLillo’s first books, Ratner’s Superstar follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who’s recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to greatly help a -panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists talk to beings from space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical ideas, aswell as the complicated emotional range and sadness people feel. Ratner’s Star demonstrates both thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo’s afterwards and more recent works.