DeLillo, Don

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The silence

a novel
2020
It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something happens and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.

White noise

2016
The Gladney's family life is disrupted and threatened when an industrial accident sends a lethal cloud over their community; Jack Gladney struggles with the ensuing complications, which include murder.

Point Omega

a novel
2010
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Mao II

1992
An extroardinary novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist.

Conversations with Don DeLillo

2005
Contains seventeen interviews with American novelist Don DeLillo conducted over the course of twenty years, beginning in 1982.

Underworld

2007
A fictional survey of the Cold War years as seen through the eyes of protagonists Nick Shay, an executive with a waste-management firm, and his one-time lover Klara Sax, an artist.

Great Jones Street

1994
Semi-divine entity in rock music, Bucky Wunderlick, abandons his tour to hide out in a dingy apartment in New York to contemplate his life and the frenzied culture he helped to create.

White noise

text and criticism
1998

Cosmopolis

a novel
2003
Follows a young billionaire on a limo ride through Manhattan where he meets participants in a spectrum of interesting events, such as a rap star's funeral, a presidential visit, and an anti-globalization rally.

The body artist

a novel
2001
Lauren Hartke, a lonely artist, meets a strange, ageless man who has an uncanny knowledge of her own life, and together, the two begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love, and human perception.

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