TY  - BOOK
N2  - Three unusual people--"defense intellectual" Richard Elster, who was involved in the management of the country's war machine; young documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who is intent on documenting Elster's experience; and Elster's daughter Jessica, who behaves like an "otherworldly" woman from New York--train their binoculars on the desert landscape of California and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws everything into question.
AB  - Three unusual people--"defense intellectual" Richard Elster, who was involved in the management of the country's war machine; young documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who is intent on documenting Elster's experience; and Elster's daughter Jessica, who behaves like an "otherworldly" woman from New York--train their binoculars on the desert landscape of California and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws everything into question.
T1  - Point Omega :a novel /
DA  - 2010.
CY  - New York :
AU  - DeLillo, Don.
ET  - 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
CN  - PS3554.E4425
CN  - PS3554.E4425
PB  - Scribner,
PP  - New York :
PY  - 2010.
ID  - 340364
KW  - Official secrets
KW  - Documentary films
SN  - 9781439169957
SN  - 1439169950
SN  - 9781439169964 (pbk.)
SN  - 1439169969 (pbk.)
TI  - Point Omega :a novel /
ER  -