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 Y
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β Scribed by Don Delillo
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Year
- 1989;1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 321 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
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 made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination.
And the the dream--and the dream-making--become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture, to impose a pattern on his own, and America's past, present, and future.
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