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Don DeLillo
An epic novel combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years of American history.
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A rich parody of the parallels between the jargon of football and the jargon of battle - and a touch of cold-war existentialism - makes this powerful novel as hilarious…
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Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a…
Reclusive writer Bill Gray escapes his failed novel into a world of political violence.
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Don DeLillo completed The Silence just weeks before the devastating advent of Covid-19. This timely and compelling novel is the story of a different catastrophic event.
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Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped…
A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relevant than ever in our celebrity-obsessed times.
A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself.
A stunningly poetic play looking at the information age.
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The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-an ode to language, at the heart of our…
When history presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of JFK will galvanize the nation against Communism, the…
Reimagining the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F Kennedy, this title concentrates on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy’s…
Laila Sougri
It explores the manner in which Don DeLillo's characters experience technocultural everyday decade after decade. The changing technoculture is resisted at times by the characters, it points out to a…
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Philipp Wolf
This book offers the first systematic study of death in the later novels of Don DeLillo. It focusses on Underworld to The Silence along with his 1984 novel White Noise…
Critical essays and reviews focus on the works of the popular contemporary novelist Don DeLillo, whose books, including Ratner’s Star, White Noise, Libra and Mao II, are postmodernist portrayals of…
Rebecca Rey
Examining all seven of DeLillo’s plays, Staging Don DeLillo places the writer’s theatre works in conversation with his novels. Rebecca Rey explores four central themes that emerge across DeLillo’s theatre…
Frank Lentricchia
A critical study of the work of contemporary American novelist Don DeLillo, which includes the comments of rock critics, syndicated columnists and scholars of American literature. It contains an expanded…
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Henry Veggian
Introduces readers to one of the most influential American writers of the last half- century. Henry Veggian traces the evolution of DeLillo’s work through the three phases of his career…
In novel after award-winning novel, Don DeLillo exhibits his deep distrust of language and the way it can conceal as much as it reveals. Not surprisingly, DeLillo he interviews with…
Don DeLillo In Context benefits scholars and students interested in intersections between his literature and its contexts. Essays examine how geography, biography, history, media studies, culture, philosophy, and the writing…
One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America - New York Times
Don Delillo
Jeff’s father, Ross, a billionaire in his sixties with a younger wife, Artis, with failing health, is the primary investor in a secret, remote compound where death is controlled and…
A supposedly unique video of Hitler’s sexual antics is a desirable commodity for a variety of people. Lightborne, an ageing dealer in all art forms of a perverted nature, claims…
A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself.
Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo’s third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection. Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits…
Don DeLillo will have something to say this November about fear and isolation…
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In an expatriate’s world of turmoil and danger, American risk analyst James Axton learns of a ritual-murder cult in the Aegean and follows the trail to its secret meanings in…
David Bell embodies the American dream. He’s twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America’s…
DeLillo’s early-career masterpiece… a dense, entertaining, mind-bending boomerang of a book that luxuriates in the language of math and science LA Times
The richest, wisest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don Delillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-an ode to language, the heart of our humanity…
From one of the country’s greatest living writers comes a brief, unnerving, and hard-hitting new novel about a secret war advisor and a young filmmaker.
An excoriating portrayal of loss and an unnerving post-Iraq discourse mark this brilliant novel of modern America.
A magnificent, essential work of fiction about the event which has come to define America at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973.
A gloriously fused history of the past 50 years that offers a key to understanding American culture, Underworld moves through the nation’s diverse landscapes, analyzing the mesmerizing interplay between two…
The scheme of two disgruntled CIA agents to stage an unsuccessful attempt on the life of President Kennedy and link it to Cuba backfires when the erratic Lee Harvey Oswald…
A witty, harrowing and superbly controlled novel about modern alienation and violence - Washington Post
A mesmeric tour de force of character rendered with DeLillo’s typical stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit becomes a warning for the global future.
A sad, beautiful novel, The Body Artist is an elliptical meditation on the mysteries of love, life and time.
From one of America’s foremost living writers comes a brilliant and disturbing comedy that mixes laughter and terror as it uncovers the boundaries of sanity in all of us.
Chairman of the department of Hitler studies at a Midwestern college, Jack Gladney is accidently exposed to a cloud of noxious chemicals, part of a world of the future that…
In West Texas, college men play football with intense passion. During a winning season the running back, Gary Harkness, is fuelled by fear of, and fascination with, nuclear conflict. Among…
In this essential work of fiction, DeLillo traces the way the events of September 11 kindled or rekindled relationships and reconfigured America’s perceptions of the world, in a novel that…
Collects nine stories written between 1979 and 2011 that chronicle three decades of American life from the perspective of a range of characters, including a pair of nuns in the…
