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Author Don DeLillo’s latest novel, _Zero K_, is to be published in the U.S. next month by Scribner, and by Picador in the UK. FX has optioned the futuristic tome for Scott Rudin Productions
as part of Rudin’s deal with Fox Network Group. In her review this week, _The New York Times_‘ Michiko Kakutani called the book DeLillo’s “most persuasive since his astonishing 1997
masterpiece, _Underworld_.” _Zero K_ follows billionaire Ross Lockhart whose younger wife, Artis Martineau, has a terminal illness. Lockhart is a significant investor in a secretive, remote
compound where death is controlled and bodies are preserved until medical advances can restore individuals to improved lives. He hopes Artis can benefit from this pioneering science. Told
from the perspective of son Jeffrey Lockhart, _Zero K_ weighs the devastations of our time against “the mingled astonishments of our lives, here, on Earth.” _The Times_ says it acts as a
kind of bookend to 1985’s _White Noise_, “somber and coolly futuristic, where that earlier book was satirical and darkly comic.” DeLillo has written 15 novels inlcuding _Cosmopolis_ which
was adapted as a feature by David Cronenberg and premiered at Cannes in 2012 starring Robert Pattinson. He also wrote the screenplay for 2005’s sports comedy _Game 6_ which starred Michael
Keaton. WATCH ON DEADLINE He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with _Mao II_ in 1992 and _Underworld_ in 1998. Last year, he was awarded the National Book
Foundation’s 2015 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Amy Schiffman’s Intellectual Property Group negotiated the deal with FX on behalf of Don DeLillo and the Wallace
Literary Agency, Inc.