Underworld
β Scribed by Don DeLillo
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 835
- Edition
- Paperback
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLilloβs most powerful and riveting novelββa great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turnerβ (San Francisco Chronicle)βUnderworldis 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, βthis is DeLilloβs most affecting novelβ¦a dazzling, phosphorescent work of artβ (Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times).
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