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Zusatztext Underworld is a “dazzling and prescient novel…A decade after 9/11! it’s worth rereading Don DeLillo’s 1997 masterpiece to appreciate how uncannily the author not only captured the surreal weirdness of life in the second half of the 20th century but also anticipated America’s lurch into the terror and exigencies of the new millennium...A breathtaking set piece…the prologue is a bravura display of Mr. DeLillo's literary powers." —Michiko Kakutani! The New York Times Informationen zum Autor Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including White Noise, which was made into a Netflix film, Libra, Underworld, Falling Man, and Zero K . He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2013, DeLillo was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, and in 2015, the National Book Foundation awarded DeLillo its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Klappentext A gloriously fused history of the past 50 years that offers a key to understanding American culture! "Underworld" moves through the nation's diverse landscapes! analyzing the mesmerizing interplay between two central characters! and "(offering) us another history of ourselves! the unofficial underground moments" (Michael Ondaatje). A National Book Award Finalist. Zusammenfassung Our lives! our half-century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once! intimately! and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life! haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome -- the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the World -- shades into the grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb. The baseball itself! fought over and scuffed! generates the narrative that follows. It takes the reader deep into the lives of Nick and Klara and into modern memory and the soul of American culture -- from Bronx tenements to grand ballrooms to a B-52 bombing raid over Vietnam. A generation's master spirits come and go. Lenny Bruce cracking desperate jokes! Mick Jagger with his devil strut! J. Edgar Hoover in a sexy leather mask. And flashing in the margins of ordinary life are the curiously connected materials of the culture. Condoms! bombs! Chevy Bel Airs and miracle sites on the Web. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart! seen in deep! clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas! shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times -- Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction. ...
