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Zusatztext A rousingly impressive achievement in almost every novelistic department - dialogue, structure, timing, precise description, heartfelt veracity and the rest . . . In Underworld we have a mature and hugely accomplished novelist firing on all cylinders, at the sophisticated height of his multifarious powers. Informationen zum Autor Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega , Falling Man , White Noise, Libra and Zero K , and has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld . In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays. Klappentext Reading the fiction of Don DeLillo is an utterly original experience: powerful! prescient! perceptive. Writing in a prose that is both majestic and muscular! his unerringly accurate vision penetrates deep into the soul of America and consistently leaves readers with a fresh perspective on the world. Since the publication of his first novel! in 1971! he has been acknowledged across the globe as one of the greatest writers of his generation. Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final! where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet! another highly significant shot was fired: the USSR's first atomic detonation. And so begins a masterpiece of gloriously symphonic storytelling. DeLillo loosely follows the fate of the winning baseball as the book swells and rolls through time. He offers a panoramic vision of America! defined by the overarching conflict of the cold war. This is an awe-inspiring story! seen in deep! clear detail! of men and women! together and apart! as they search for meaning! survival and connection in the toughest of times. An epic novel combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years of American history. Zusammenfassung An epic novel combining fiction and history in a collaboration that encompasses fifty years of American history....
