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Cosmopolis : A Novelby Don DeLilloISBN 0330412744 (0-330-41274-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmopolis'Book summary:Cosmopolis is Don DeLillo's 13th novel. His reputation as one of the most provocative and innovative of American writers is assured, thanks to such books as Underworld and Americana, but this new outing is as likely to challenge the author's legion of admirers as much as it will exhilarate them--and there's nothing wrong with that.
DeLillo's protagonist this time is a well-heeled American, Eric Packer, who sets out one eventful day for a haircut. Gazing through the windows of his white limousine (and availing himself of its state-of-the-art technology), this self-made millionaire takes in the spectacle of financiers being murdered, the funeral of a rapper and some violent anti-globalisation protests. As we come to know DeLillo's anti-hero, we realise that Eric Packer is by no means the most ingratiating of individuals. Cheating on his new wife, he specialises in using people in a cynical and exploitative way. And as this self-serving captain of industry takes an ever-more dangerous journey through a bizarrely rendered New York, it's inevitable that comparisons with Tom Wolfe's classic Bonfire of the Vanities will spring to mind. Resemblances of plot aside, however, the book is a very different animal. Wolfe's narrative had the epic spread of a latter-day War and Peace, whereas DeLillo sharpens and condenses his prose in Cosmopolis to produce an altogether more concise novel.
There are two ways to approach Cosmopolis: as a rudely pointed dissection of the American Dream, or as a surreal, symbolic (and disturbing) road trip. This is not a comforting book, but a bracing and caustic one. --Barry Forshaw [via]
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- Cosmopolis: A Novel: ISBN 0330432885 (0-330-43288-5)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan - Cosmopolis : A Novel: ISBN 0330412752 (0-330-41275-2)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan - Cosmopolis : A Novel: ISBN 0330412760 (0-330-41276-0)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan - Cosmopolis: ISBN 0330412744 (0-330-41274-4)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
- Cosmopolis: A Novel: ISBN 0330432885 (0-330-43288-5)
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The Day Room : A Playby Don DeLilloISBN 033037429X (0-330-37429-X)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Day Room : A Play'Book summary:The play opens in a hospital; the characters are patients, doctors and nurses. It is a recognizable, predictable world. And yet, as the scenes unfold -- in dialogue crackling with intelligence and insight, with incandescent bite and humour -- our sense of normalcy is rocked from under us. Are these doctors and nurses really just patients from the Arno Klein Psychiatric Wing? Or are they something else entirely: people who are playing psychiatric patients playing doctors and nurses? And who, exactly, is Arno Klein? Described by the Boston Globe on its first performance as 'an unselfconscious, fizzing, inventive black comedy that is enormously funny', The Day Room displays Don DeLillo's extraordinary talents in the brightest of lights. [via]
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End Zoneby Don DeLilloISBN 0330426451 (0-330-42645-1)
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Falling Man : A Novelby Don DeLilloISBN 0330452231 (0-330-45223-1)
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Great Jones Streetby Don DeLilloISBN 0330315455 (0-330-31545-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Jones Street'Book summary:The narrator of this novel is Bucky Wunderlick, a Dylan-Jagger amalgam who finds he's gone as far as he knows how. Mid tour he leaves his rock band and holes up in a dingy East Village apartment, in Great Jones Street. The plot revolves around his retreat and a drug designed to silence dissidents. [via]
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Love-Lies-Bleeding : A Playby Don DeLilloISBN 0330439553 (0-330-43955-3)
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Mao IIby Don DeLilloISBN 022403152X (0-224-03152-X)
Hardcover, Random House
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The Namesby Don DeLilloISBN 0330297511 (0-330-29751-1)
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Running Dogby Don DeLilloISBN 0330315463 (0-330-31546-3)
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Underworld : A Novelby Don DeLilloISBN 0330369954 (0-330-36995-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Underworld : A Novel'Book summary: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 wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super-omniscience" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter--the "shot heard around the world"--and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand.
"It's all falling indelibly into the past," writes DeLillo, a past that he carefully recalls and reconstructs with acute grace. Jump from Giants Stadium to the Nevada desert in 1992, where Nick Shay, who now owns the baseball, reunites with the artist Kara Sax. They had been brief and unlikely lovers 40 years before, and it is largely through the events, spinoffs, and coincidental encounters of their pasts that DeLillo filters the Cold War experience. He believes that "global events may alter how we live in the smallest ways," and as the book steps back in time to 1951, over the following 800-odd pages, we see just how those events alter lives. This reverse narrative allows the author to strip away the detritus of history and pop culture until we get to the story's pure elements: the bomb, the baseball, and the Bronx. In an epilogue as breathless and stunning as the prologue, DeLillo fast-forwards to a near future in which ruthless capitalism, the Internet, and a new, hushed faith have replaced the Cold War's blend of dread and euphoria.
Through fragments and interlaced stories--including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others--DeLillo creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life, wonderfully distilled. [via]
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Underworld (B Format)by Don DeLilloISBN 0330354337 (0-330-35433-7)
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Valparaiso : A Playby Don DeLilloISBN 033042694X (0-330-42694-X)
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White Noiseby Don DeLilloISBN 0330291084 (0-330-29108-4)
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