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Underworld is a 1997 novel by American writer Don DeLillo. The novel is centered on the efforts of Nick Shay, a waste management executive who grew up in the Bronx, to trace the history of the baseball that won the New York Giants the pennant in 1951, and encompasses numerous subplots drawn from American history in the second half of the ...
Oct 3, 1997 · 3.94. 31,612 ratings2,470 reviews. While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the Cold War and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people both ...
Jan 1, 2003 · Underworld: A Novel. First Edition. Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel was a major bestseller when it was published in 1997 and was the most widely reviewed novel of the year. It opens with a legendary baseball game played between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants in 1951.
Apr 18, 2024 · Don DeLillo, American novelist whose postmodernist works portray the anomie of an America cosseted by material excess and stupefied by empty mass culture and politics. His notable books included White Noise (1985), Libra (1988), Underworld (1997), and Point Omega (2010).
Jul 14, 2011 · July 14, 2011. A decade after 9/11, it’s worth rereading Don DeLillo’s 1997 masterpiece, “Underworld,” to appreciate how uncannily the author not only captured the surreal weirdness of ...
827 pages. Scribner. $27.50. In an earlier book, a Don DeLillo character spoke about a Joycean novel, a novel "in which nothing is left out," a novel that would capture the nervous spin and...
Oct 3, 1997 · UNDERWORLD. by Don DeLillo ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 3, 1997. He kicks the rock of reality, teases out the connectedness of things, and leaves us in awe.
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Jun 5, 2007 · by Don DeLillo (Author) 4.1 1,216 ratings. See all formats and editions. A finalist for the National Book Award, Underworld is Don DeLillo’s most powerful and riveting novel—“a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner” (San Francisco Chronicle).
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Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel was a major bestseller when it was published in 1997 and was the most widely reviewed novel of the year. It opens with a legendary baseball game played between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants in 1951.
