**The first novel by Don DeLillo, author of *White Noise* (winner of the National Book Award) and \*Zero K**\* At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American Dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals tobecome a top television executive. David's world is ma
Americana
β Scribed by Don Delillo
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 1971;2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 226 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
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 only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel...
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