Underworld, Paperback
Descriere
A finalist for the National Book Award, Don De Lillo'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 De Lillo's most affecting novel...a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art"" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
Despre autor
Donald Richard DeLillo este un romancier, povestitor, dramaturg, scenarist și eseist american. Opera sa a acoperit subiecte diverse, cum ar fi consumismul, războiul nuclear, complexitatea limbajului, arta, televiziunea, apariția Epocii Digitale, matematica, politica, economia și sportul.
