Underworld
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Underworld
An epic novel combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years of American history.
An epic novel combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years of American history.
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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 of the winning baseball as the book swells and rolls through time. He offers a panoramic vision of America, defined by the overarching conflict of the Cold War.
This is an awe-inspiring story, seen in deep, clear detail, of men and women, together and apart, as they search for meaning, survival, and connection in the toughest of times.
Series: Picador Collection
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Don DeLillo's Underworld is widely acclaimed as a literary masterpiece, praised for its ambitious scope and intricate weaving of voices and events. Critics highlight its remarkable dialogue, structure, and emotional depth, alongside its ability to capture pivotal moments in American history with precision and wit. The novel is often regarded as DeLillo's most complex and successful work, celebrated for its epic portrayal of the Cold War era and its status as a monumental contribution to contemporary American literature.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529092097
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 November 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 61.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 576g
Pages: 832
About the Author
Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra, and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.
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