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Zusatztext “Think of Underworld as a successor not to the great American novels of Hemingway! Faulkner and Fitzgerald! but to the Russian masterpieces of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. . . . Abig! multistoried! glorious! moving novel.” Informationen zum Autor Don DeLillo is the author of seventeen novels including Underworld, Zero K, Libra, and White Noise, and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda, a finalist for the Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He has also written plays and essays. 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, the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and, in 2025, the Academy's Gold Medal for Fiction. DeLillo has been awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and the National Book Foundation's 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 A finalist for the National Book Award! Don DeLillo’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 DeLillo’s most affecting novel…a dazzling! phosphorescent work of art” (Michiko Kakutani! The New York Times ). ...
