{"product_id":"cosmopolis","title":"Cosmopolis","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWhite Noise\u003c\/i\u003e comes a riveting exploration on wealth as a man's life gradually falls to pieces over the course of one day--now a major motion picture directed by David Cronenberg and starring Robert Pattinson.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end. The booming times of market optimism--when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments-- are poised to crash. Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. Today he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent political demonstration, Eric receives a string of visitors--experts on security, technology, currency, finance and a few sexual partners--as the limo sputters toward an increasingly uncertain future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosmopolis\u003c\/i\u003e, Don DeLillo's thirteenth novel, is both intimate and global, a vivid and moving account of the spectacular downfall of one man, and of an era.","brand":"Don Delillo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47273763668204,"sku":"9780743244251","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780743244251.jpg?v=1770142992","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/cosmopolis","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}