"[DeLillo's] most spectacularly inventive novel." –
The New York Times "A mind-expanding trip to the finish line, and full of wit and slapstick as well..." –
Washington Post Book World
"Brilliantly...enormously ambitions....
Ratner's Star uses the story of an innocent's 'education' as the launching pad for a provocative, prodigious satire on those pioneers who journey beyond the frontiers of knowledge and end up more ignorant than they were when they set forth." –
Chicago Tribune Book World
"This red giant of a book...is not only interesting, but funny (in a nervous kind of way)." –
The New York Times Book Review