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Ratner's Star

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Ratner's Star
Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo.
AuthorDon DeLillo
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction novel
PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
Publication date
June, 1976
Publication placeUnited StatesUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages438 pp (hardback first edition)
ISBNISBN 0-394-40083-6 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character

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. The novel is broken into two parts, the first is a more traditional narrative, while the second is less so.