FICTION
Released: May 3, 1971
"One is left with a great many impalpables, along with the impression that DeLillo has a lot going for him — a fanciful, sharp rogue talent."
Certainly there's something of Walker Percy's movie-goer, movie-watcher in Don DeLillo's David Bell and his kinescopic vista of America — "all fragments of the exploded dream" or the good life he's pursuing.
Read full book review >
FICTION
Released: April 19, 1973
"But in any case there is the same brinksmanship, drastic verve and undercutting lip which give these concepts and abstractions (these include the characters) a surreal sense of life just as it faces extinction."
This is the third one of Mr. DeLillo's one-of-a-kind novels in as many years — metamyths dealing with the unlovely face of America phrased this time (the last was a football player) around a rock-'n-roll artist "in endland" who retires to a "cold as a penny" room on Great Jones Street in lower Manhattan.
Read full book review >
FICTION
Released: June 4, 1976
"It is a novel to be read, not for plot (rambling, obscure) nor for character (a thousand loony variations on the author), but for prose—DeLillo's enraptured aria to the twin kabala of mathematics and language, in arc after dazzling arc of words."
Billy Pilgrim, meet Billy Twillig—no Vonnegutian unstuck-in-time traveler, but another lugubrious pubescent hero beset by strange experiences having to do with extraterrestrial contact and space-time distortion.
Read full book review >
FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 1977
"A talent reaffirmed, then, but a talent that this time doesn't quite connect."
For one over-extended, under-involved Manhattan couple—stockbroker Lyle and Pammy of the Grief Management Council—"What seemed to be missing was the desire to compile."
Read full book review >
