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The story addresses roots of American pathology and introduces themes DeLillo expanded upon in The Names (1982), White Noise (1985), and Libra (1988). The first half of the novel can be viewed as a critique of the corporate world while the second half articulates the fears and dilemmas of contemporary American life.
Donald Richard DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as consumerism, nuclear war, the complexities of language, art, television, the advent of the Digital Age, mathematics, politics, economics, and sports.
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 twentieth century.
DeLillo has stated that Libra is not a nonfiction novel due to its inclusion of fictional characters and speculative plot elements. [1] Nevertheless, the broad outline of Oswald's life, including his teenage years in New York City, his military service, his use of the alias "Hidell", [2] and his defection to the Soviet Union are all historically accurate.
The book reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list on January 20, [2] [21] and remained there for three weeks. [22] It was the first self-published novel to ever top the list. [23] A companion novel, Losing Hope, was published that July. [24] Finding Cinderella is a free novella that Hoover published in
Jul. 8—"White Noise," a novel by Don DeLillo, is considered a modern classic by numerous critics. The book centers on Jack Gladney, a prestigious professor of Hitler studies, employed at a small ...
$7.51 at amazon.com. Finding Cinderella. This sweet novella, the third book in the Hopeless series, features two secondary characters who fans of the series will recognize. After Daniel has a ...
Colleen Hoover went from BookTok’s “It Girl” to Hollywood’s hottest get. The author is known for her emotional novels, but the books are making even more headway now that there are film ...