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Cosmopolis
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Cosmopolis By Don DelilloCosmopolis By Don DelilloBy Don Delillo

Cosmopolis is the story of Eric Packer, a 28 year old multi-billionaire asset manager who makes an odyssey across midtown Manhattan in order to get a haircut. The stretch limo which adorns the cover of the book is richly described as highly technical and very luxurious, filled with television screens and computer monitors, bulletproofed and floored with Carrara marble. It is also cork lined to eliminate (though unsuccessfully, as Packer notes) the intrusion of street noise.
 
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The New Yorker - July 7 and 14, 2008
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The New Yorker - July 7 and 14, 2008pdf with no Ads

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Obama’s Iraq Problem
Last year’s rhetoric meets this year’s facts.
by George Packer
 
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