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FICTION
Released: Nov. 1, 2011
THE ANGEL ESMERALDA
by Don DeLillo
"Completists will search for clues in this slight but rich volume to the maturation of DeLillo's artistry."
The renowned author's first story collection presents a chronological progression of nine narratives, organized into three parts, challenging readers to make connections. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 2, 2010
Kirkus Star POINT OMEGA
by Don DeLillo
"An icy, disturbing and masterfully composed study of guilt, loss and regret--quite possibly the author's finest yet. "
Moving a step beyond the disturbing symbolism of Falling Man (2007, etc.), DeLillo ruminates teasingly on a tendency toward obliteration perhaps locked into the DNA of all living things. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: May 15, 2007
Kirkus Star FALLING MAN
by Don DeLillo
"Beauty from ashes."
The contemporary master's 14th novel is a pulsating exploration of our recent history akin and comparable to such predecessors as White Noise (1985), Libra (1988) and Mao II (1991). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: April 14, 2003
COSMOPOLIS
by Don DeLillo
"The crystalline metaphysician-ironist is only sporadically present in this distorted, frustratingly opaque world."
High finance, terrorism and paranoia, and various new technologies, all are targets in DeLillo's darkly satirical latest: a bleakly funny footnote to such earlier anatomies of contemporary malaise as The Names (1982), White Noise (1985), and Mao II (1991). Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Feb. 6, 2001
Kirkus Star THE BODY ARTIST
by Don DeLillo
"A virtually perfect short novel, shimmering with in-held meaning, menace, and--oddly--a kind of reassurance."
This surpassingly eerie tale from the author of such contemporary classics as End Zone (1972), White Noise (1991), and Underworld (1997) artfully blends DeLillo's characteristic themes of paranoia and disorientation with the allure of the old-fashioned ghost story. Read full book review >
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 3, 1997
Kirkus Star UNDERWORLD
by Don DeLillo
"He kicks the rock of reality, teases out the connectedness of things, and leaves us in awe."
Working at the top of his form, DeLillo draws on his previous novels (Mao II, 1991, Libra, 1988, etc.) in shaping his most ambitious work yet, a grand Whitmanesque epic of postwar American life—a brainy, streetwise, and lyrical underground history of our times, full of menace and miracles, and humming with the bop and crackle of postmodern life. Read full book review >