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- Underworld : a Novel
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- 1998
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- English
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- Classics, General, Literary
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A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel--"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" ( San Francisco Chronicle )-- Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties and again in the nineties. With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, "this is DeLillo's most affecting novel...a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ).
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Scribner
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0684848155
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9780684848150
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Book Title
Underworld : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Classics, General, Literary
Publication Year
1998
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Fiction
Number of Pages
848 Pages
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Item Length
8in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
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Majestic and playful . . . amazingly light and supple for so weightyand elegiac a construction, Underworld soarslike a cathedral on the audacity of DeLillo's connections., Greg Burkman The Seattle Times Masterpieces teach you how to read them, and Underworld is no exception....Anastonishing piece of prose and a benchmark of twentieth-century fiction, Underworld is stunnigly beautiful in its generous humanity, locating the true power of history not in tyranny, collective political movements of history books, but inside each of us., Constantly pleasing not merely for the licked-finish illusionism with which he reproduces speech, or the camera eye he brings to bear on diverse contexts, but for the ways in which the renditions of those things will depart from the known or expected., Magnificent . . . Underworld is the most powerful and original novel that DeLillo, one of the strongest American writers of our time, has written., "A decade after 9/11, it’s worth rereading Don DeLillo’s 1997 masterpiece, “Underworld,� to appreciate how uncannily the author not only captured the surreal weirdness of life in the second half of the 20th century but also anticipated America’s lurch into the terror and exigencies of the new millennium...The prologue is such a bravura display of Mr. DeLillo's literary powers, odds are the reader will be propelled through the rest of this dazzling and prescient novel." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, Underworld is a "dazzling and prescient novel…A decade after 9/11, it's worth rereading Don DeLillo's 1997 masterpiece to appreciate how uncannily the author not only captured the surreal weirdness of life in the second half of the 20th century but also anticipated America's lurch into the terror and exigencies of the new millennium...A breathtaking set piece…the prologue is a bravura display of Mr. DeLillo's literary powers." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, Courageous, ingenious and demanding, Underworld is a book to be talked about . . . for years to come., Think of Underworld as asuccessor not to the great American novels of Hemingway, Faulkner andFitzgerald, but to the Russian masterpieces of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. . . . Abig, multistoried, glorious, moving novel., His best novel and perhaps that most elusive of creatures, a greatAmerican novel . . . . a masterpiece in which the depth and reach of thecommonplace are invested with universal scope and grandeur. Underworld is also a thrillingpage-turner, propelling us along with realistic characters and those compellingdetails that make it impossible for them-or us-to escape the past., The profundity, the intricacy, the beauty of Underworld leaves me in a state of awe. It's one of a handful ofnovels that will come to define our culture in this century., Think of Underworld as a successor not to the great American novels of Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald, but to the Russian masterpieces of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. . . . Abig, multistoried, glorious, moving novel., One of America's greatest contemporary fiction writers illuminates American Cold War life and its obsessions, weaving history and imagination into a huge and compelling tapestry., Joan MellenThe Baltimore Sun Underworld is a page-turner and a masterwork, a sublime novel and a delight to read., Michael Ondaatje Author of The English Patient You pick up and travel with DeLillo anywhere -- the bliss of a baseball game, the meeting of old lovers in a desert. He offers us another history of ourselves, the official underground moments. He smells the music in argument and brag. He throws the unbitten coin of fame back at us. The book is an aria and a wolf-whistle of our half century. It contains multitudes., The larger the canvas, the better DeLillo paints. He is a novelist of big themes . . . . Underworld is a tour de force., Reading DeLillo's books bolsters out belief in the art of fiction: He catches the drift of end-of-the-century life in words, one bright shining sentence after another., Magnificent . . . Underworld isthe most powerful and original novel that DeLillo, one of the strongestAmerican writers of our time, has written., Underworld is a "dazzling and prescient novel...A decade after 9/11, it's worth rereading Don DeLillo's 1997 masterpiece to appreciate how uncannily the author not only captured the surreal weirdness of life in the second half of the 20th century but also anticipated America's lurch into the terror and exigencies of the new millennium...A breathtaking set piece...the prologue is a bravura display of Mr. DeLillo's literary powers." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, Anyone who wants to try to understand an appreciate the last half-century of life in these United States can do no better than read Don DeLillo's magnificent, beautifully written and outrageously persuasive new novel, Underworld , unquestionably his masterpiece. . . . A triumphant performance., Utterly extraordinary . . . in its epic ambition and accomplishment, Underworld calls out for comparison withworks like those of Bely or Balzac that have defined the consciousness of theirage., The profundity, the intricacy, the beauty of Underworld leaves me in a state of awe. It's one of a handful of novels that will come to define our culture in this century., Underworld , DeLillo'srichest and most ambitious novel, seeks nothing less than the secret truths ofmodern America., DeLillo's breathtaking prose transforms this otherwise bleak wastelandinto a thrilling, brilliantly illuminated landscape., Greg BurkmanThe Seattle TimesMasterpieces teach you how to read them, andUnderworldis no exception....Anastonishing piece of prose and a benchmark of twentieth-century fiction,Underworldis stunnigly beautiful in its generous humanity, locating the true power of history not in tyranny, collective political movements of history books, but inside each of us., The larger the canvas, the better DeLillo paints. He is a novelist ofbig themes . . . . Underworld is atour de force., Underworld is a "dazzling and prescient novel...A decade after 9/11, it's worth rereading Don DeLillo's 1997 masterpiece to appreciate how uncannily the author not only captured the surreal weirdness of life in the second half of the 20th century but also anticipated America's lurch into the terror and exigencies of the new millennium...A breathtaking set piece...the prologue is a bravura display of Mr. DeLillo's literary powers.", The most personal and contemplative of DeLillo's novels . . . Underworld confirms that contemporary American fiction's most promising movement involves novels on a large social and historical scale that stretch the norms of narrative and language., His best novel and perhaps that most elusive of creatures, a great American novel . . . . a masterpiece in which the depth and reach of the commonplace are invested with universal scope and grandeur. Underworld is also a thrilling page-turner, propelling us along with realistic characters and those compelling details that make it impossible for them--or us--to escape the past., Underworld 's intellect, its view, its fabulous drama, its soul, its passion and compassion, and the beauty of the writing, just the size and generosity of it, are all of some spectacular high order. I can't imagine any writer reading it without complete admiration and a kind of gratitude, because if a book like that can be written in a culture like this, it's terrific for all of us., In Underworld , we have a mature and hugely accomplished novelist firing on all cylinders, at the sophisticated height of his multifarious powers. Reading the book is a charged and thrilling aesthetic experience and one remembers gratefully that this is what the novel can do, and indeed does, better than any other art form--it gets the human condition, it skewers and fixes it in all its richness and squalor unlike anything else. The novel is the 'great book of life' and as long as there are human beings who are readers it will survive and, with a little luck,even flourish. Don DeLillo's Underworld is a formidably potent and hugely encouraging testimonial to this undeniable,indomitable and strangely consoling fact., Underworld is a "dazzling and prescient novel...A decade after 9/11, it's worth rereading Don DeLillo's 1997 masterpiece to appreciate how uncannily the author not only captured the surreal weirdness of life in the second half of the 20th century but also anticipated America's lurch into the terror and exigencies of the new millennium...A breathtaking set piece...the prologue is a bravura display of Mr. DeLillo's literary powers." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, Utterly extraordinary . . . in its epic ambition and accomplishment, Underworld calls out for comparison with works like those of Bely or Balzac that have defined the consciousness of their age., Precise, stark, gorgeous-something perhaps more properly termed ametaphysics of language, rendering and reflecting the mysteries ofconsciousness, those elusive meanings he and his character so passionatelyseek., Underworld is a "dazzling and prescient novel&A decade after 9/11, it's worth rereading Don DeLillo's 1997 masterpiece to appreciate how uncannily the author not only captured the surreal weirdness of life in the second half of the 20th century but also anticipated America's lurch into the terror and exigencies of the new millennium...A breathtaking set piece&the prologue is a bravura display of Mr. DeLillo's literary powers." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times, Masterpieces teach you how to read them, and Underworld is no exception....Anastonishing piece of prose and a benchmark of twentieth-century fiction, Underworld is stunnigly beautiful in its generous humanity, locating the true power of history not in tyranny, collective political movements of history books, but inside each of us., Delillo Has Written the First Defining Novel of What We Are Still Calling the Post-Cold War Period., Underworld , DeLillo's richest and most ambitious novel, seeks nothing less than the secret truths of modern America., Anyone who wants to try to understand an appreciate the lasthalf-century of life in these United States can do no better than read DonDeLillo's magnificent, beautifully written and outrageously persuasive newnovel, Underworld , unquestionably hismasterpiece. . . . A triumphant performance., In years to come, DeLillo's novel will certainly be seen as a perfect document of our paranoid, teeming, deeply nostalgic age., Astonishing. A sprawling and spectacular look at a half-century inAmerican life as seen through a series of multiple visions that come flashinginto our consciousness in ways that are endlessly enlightening and awesome intheir insights. DeLillo has raised literary standards to new highs here, andyet the book is a page-turner, a scene-stealer, a triumph of language thattakes us everywhere we've never been., In years to come, DeLillo's novel will certainly be seen as a perfectdocument of our paranoid, teeming, deeply nostalgic age., DeLillo understands the capacity of words to elevate us above the mundane, to establish a distance from things and a mastery over them, a power emerging from the capacity given to Adam, the ability to name., His best novel and perhaps that most elusive of creatures, a great American novel . . . . a masterpiece in which the depth and reach of the commonplace are invested with universal scope and grandeur. Underworld is also a thrilling page-turner, propelling us along with realistic characters and those compelling details that make it impossible for them-or us-to escape the past., Underworld 's intellect, itsview, its fabulous drama, its soul, its passion and compassion, and the beautyof the writing, just the size and generosity of it, are all of some spectacularhigh order. I can't imagine any writer reading it without complete admiration anda kind of gratitude, because if a book like that can be written in a culturelike this, it's terrific for all of us., Joan MellenThe Baltimore SunUnderworldis a page-turner and a masterwork, a sublime novel and a delight to read., Underworld soars. Bigger andricher than anything Don DeLillo has done before, this multicharacter,time-leaping, sea-to-shining-sea dissection of Cold War American life isperilously good--so good, so strong, deep, knowing and funny, that you might betempted to read it and it alone, fanatically, the rest of your days., Majestic and playful . . . amazingly light and supple for so weighty and elegiac a construction, Underworld soars like a cathedral on the audacity of DeLillo's connections., DeLillo understands the capacity of words to elevate us above themundane, to establish a distance from things and a mastery over them, a poweremerging from the capacity given to Adam, the ability to name., Greg BurkmanThe Seattle TimesMasterpieces teach you how to read them, and Underworld is no exception....Anastonishing piece of prose and a benchmark of twentieth-century fiction, Underworld is stunnigly beautiful in its generous humanity, locating the true power of history not in tyranny, collective political movements of history books, but inside each of us., Constantly pleasing not merely for the licked-finish illusionism withwhich he reproduces speech, or the camera eye he brings to bear on diversecontexts, but for the ways in which the renditions of those things will departfrom the known or expected., Precise, stark, gorgeous-something perhaps more properly termed a metaphysics of language, rendering and reflecting the mysteries of consciousness, those elusive meanings he and his character so passionately seek., Precise, stark, gorgeous--something perhaps more properly termed a metaphysics of language, rendering and reflecting the mysteries of consciousness, those elusive meanings he and his character so passionately seek., The most personal and contemplative of DeLillo's novels . . . Underworld confirms that contemporaryAmerican fiction's most promising movement involves novels on a large socialand historical scale that stretch the norms of narrative and language., Astonishing. A sprawling and spectacular look at a half-century in American life as seen through a series of multiple visions that come flashing into our consciousness in ways that are endlessly enlightening and awesome in their insights. DeLillo has raised literary standards to new highs here, and yet the book is a page-turner, a scene-stealer, a triumph of language that takes us everywhere we've never been., Delillo Has Written the First Defining Novel of What We Are Stillcalling the Post-Cold War Period., Underworld soars. Bigger andricher than anything Don DeLillo has done before, this multicharacter,time-leaping, sea-to-shining-sea dissection of Cold War American life isperilously good-so good, so strong, deep, knowing and funny, that you might betempted to read it and it alone, fanatically, the rest of your days., For those who love eloquent prose and powerful ideas, Underworld is an eight-course meal. . .. An eye-opener, a consciousness-raising treatise on modern America by a writerin love with the power of words and the country he calls his own., Reading DeLillo's books bolsters out belief in the art of fiction: Hecatches the drift of end-of-the-century life in words, one bright shiningsentence after another., In Underworld , we have a mature and hugely accomplished novelist firing on all cylinders, at the sophisticated height of his multifarious powers. Reading the book is a charged and thrilling aesthetic experience and one remembers gratefully that this is what the novel can do, and indeed does, better than any other art form-it gets the human condition, it skewers and fixes it in all its richness and squalor unlike anything else. The novel is the 'great book of life' and as long as there are human beings who are readers it will survive and, with a little luck,even flourish. Don DeLillo's Underworld is a formidably potent and hugely encouraging testimonial to this undeniable,indomitable and strangely consoling fact., In Underworld , we have amature and hugely accomplished novelist firing on all cylinders, at thesophisticated height of his multifarious powers. Reading the book is a chargedand thrilling aesthetic experience and one remembers gratefully that this iswhat the novel can do, and indeed does, better than any other art form-it getsthe human condition, it skewers and fixes it in all its richness and squalorunlike anything else. The novel is the 'great book of life' and as long asthere are human beings who are readers it will survive and, with a little luck,even flourish. Don DeLillo's Underworld isa formidably potent and hugely encouraging testimonial to this undeniable,indomitable and strangely consoling fact., Malcolm JonesNewsweekThere's pleasure on evey page of this pitch-perfect evocation of a half-century., One of America's greatest contemporary fiction writers illuminatesAmerican Cold War life and its obsessions, weaving history and imagination intoa huge and compelling tapestry.
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1997
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97-013825
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