Three novels of the 1980s /
This first volume in the Library of America Don DeLillo edition presents three indispensable novels from the 1980s, published here with new prefaces by the author. The Names is the story of an American risk analyst living in Greece whose investigation into a bizarre string of ritual murders provokes...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Library of America
[2022].
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| Series: | Library of America ;
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| Summary: | This first volume in the Library of America Don DeLillo edition presents three indispensable novels from the 1980s, published here with new prefaces by the author. The Names is the story of an American risk analyst living in Greece whose investigation into a bizarre string of ritual murders provokes a reckoning with the terrifying power of language. In the National Book Award-winning White Noise, DeLillo creates a frightening yet wickedly funny portrait of a postmodern America where 'you are the sum of your data,' a world recognizably ours. A revelatory depiction of a defining event in twentieth-century history, Libra offers a feverish counter-history of the JFK assassination and a nuanced portrait of the president's murderer. This edition also includes the essays 'American Blood,' DeLillo's first foray into the Kennedy assassination, and 'Silhouette City,' about far-right threats to America, as well as a newly researched chronology of the author's life. |
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| Physical Description: | 1121 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781598537338 1598537334 |