Don DeLillo

Libra by Don DeLillo, now available as a Penguin Essential, delves deep into the heart of America's most gripping historical moment—the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Set against the backdrop of Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 PM, the narrative captures the instant the nation was plunged into turmoil and psychosis. Shots ring...

He's a writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he's done - Martin Amis, Sunday Times 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 in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his...

Falling Man begins on a day that changed the fabric of the world: September 11. Amidst the smoke and ash of the burning towers, the story zeroes in on Keith Neudecker, who emerges from the chaos, dust-covered and disoriented, stumbling away from ground zero. Throughout the novel, we follow the intricate aftermath of this global tremor, exploring its profound impact...

Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll icon at the height of his career, but fame and fortune have left him feeling hollow and disillusioned. Seeking refuge from the relentless pressures of celebrity culture, he abruptly abandons his band mid-tour and retreats to a sparse, unfurnished apartment on Great Jones Street in New York City. This cryptic disappearance ignites a...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Howell's Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters "A great American novel" (San Francisco Chronicle) that spans five decades of American history, following the intimate lives of the men and women who lived through them. It...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • An “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (The New York Times) modern classic about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology. “Tremendously funny . . . A stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists.” —The New Republic The inspiration for the award-winning major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise follows...

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyse us? Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the...

Reissue with a stunning new jacket of this classic DeLillo novel Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM. Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Libra, Don DeLillo's extraordinary novel, is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on the lives...

Underworld opens—famously—at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet, another highly significant shot was fired: the USSR's first atomic detonation. And so begins a masterpiece of gloriously symphonic storytelling. Don DeLillo loosely follows the fate...