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Underworld
by Don Delillo
ISBN: 0684848155
ISBN-13: 9780684848150
Format: Paperback
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Summary
In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of chronologically dislocated events. Additionally, history and facts scattered throughout the novel connect the reader to DeLillo's fictional world. After the reader discovers how these disjointed experiences and characters are related, the message of the novel becomes clear. The novel is set in the world of American baseball from the 1950s to the early 1990's. In its famous 1951 opening scene, the Giants win a crucial game against the Dodgers thanks to Bobby Thompson's home run, at the same moment that the Russians successfully test the A-bomb, an event that signals the real beginning of the Cold War. Baseball and international politics drive the narrative, which centers on ex-ballplayer Nick Shay and an artist named Klara Sax, the woman he once loved. UNDERWORLD was nominated for the National Book Award.
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"Working at the top of his form, DeLillo draws on his previous novels in shaping his most ambitious work yet, a grand Whitmanesque epic of postwar American life-a brainy, streetwise, and lyrical underground history of our times, full of menace and miracles..."
-- Kirkus
"[A]n amazing performance, a novel that encompasses some five decades of history....It is the story of one man, one family, but it is also the story of what happened to America in the second half of the 20th century....Though the novel is laugh-out-loud funny at times, DeLillo's satiric impulse is matched, in these pages, by a new willingness to probe beneath the surface of the characters' lives....Cutting back and forth in time and between a multitude of plot lines, DeLillo creates a wonderfully rich, elliptical narrative....[A] dazzling, phosphorescent work of art." -- Michiko Kakutani
-- New York Times
"The novel is an impressive feat of cerebration-a highly wrought and unbelievable theory about garbage and G-men joined to lament for lost community." -- James Bowman
-- Wall Street Journal
"UNDERWORLD may or may not be a great novel, but there is no question that it renders DeLillo a great novelist." -- Martin Amis
-- New York Times Book Review
"[T]he best English-language novel of the Nineties...." -- John Leonard
-- New York Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Scribner
Published date: 1998
Size: 5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 1.5 pounds
Pages: 827
Publisher's Notes
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.
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Scribner, 1998-07-09. Paperback. Good. First few pages have a little waviness in the upper corner from water damage. Bottom edge of book has a little light smudging; corners are curling a bit. NOT an ex-library book; no publisher's remainder marks. Military (APO/FPO) orders are welcomed - Thank you for your service. ( more information) Offered by DogServant (United States)
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New York, NY: Scribner. July 9, 1998. Paperback. Near Fine. While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upo n the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times ove rwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture , compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and peopl e both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly gracef ul prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super- omniscience" the sentences swee p from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars ove r the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Glea son and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotte r--the "shot heard around the world"--and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand. ( more information) Offered by Infinity Books Japan (Japan)
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New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. 5.5 x 8 trade paperback book. White and black lettering on the gold spine with an illustrated cover. 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. 827 pages. 2nd Printing. Very little soil and wear. Tight binding. Near Fine condition.. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. ( more information) Offered by Connie Popek, Bookseller (United States)
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New York: Scribner Paperback, 1998. Trade paperback, 827 pages. See our other DeLillo titles.. First Thus. Soft Cover. Fine. ( more information) Offered by Mimico BOOKS (Canada)
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Scribner. PAPERBACK. 0684848155 Pub date: 1998. Condition: BRAND NEW. Brand new book with slight shelf wear. We are a tested and proven company with over 300,000 satisfied customers since 1997. Delivery confirmation on all US orders. Choose expedited shipping for delivery in 2-6 busine . New. 1998. ( more information) Offered by The Book Cellar (United States)
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Scribner, 1997. FIRST EDITIION FIRST PRINTING. Paperback. FINE. 100. 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; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. 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. Don DeLillo is the author of eleven novels, including White Noise, Libra, and Mao II, and has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.". 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by A P Books (United States)
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Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Scribner, 1998. A fine gold beige blue trade paperback volume. 827pp.. First Scribner Paperback Edition . Trade Paperback. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by BOOX.ca (Canada)
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1998 827p. This book is about the underworld of the U.S. Nick Shay and Klara Sax are the main characters. Nick trying to distance himself from his past. Klara in a blood struggle for independence. The cold war is the background for this novel. Author of Libra and White noise. New York times best seller. minor corner wear.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good -/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Reading Rat (Canada)
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Scribner. Paperback. 8.0 x 5.2 x 1.8 inches. Paperback in very good condition. Heavy book. First edition in the UK.\nAmazon\nWhile Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russian peoples, DeLillo offers a stunning, at times overwhelming, document of the twin forces of the cold war and American culture, compelling that "swerve from evenness" in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls "super-omniscience" the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunken Jackie Gleason and a splenetic Frank Sinatra, and learns of the Soviet Union's second detonation of a nuclear bomb. It's an absolutely thrilling literary moment. When Bobby Thomson hits Branca's pitch into the outstretched hand of Cotter--the "shot heard around the world"--and Jackie Gleason pukes on Sinatra's shoes, the events of the next few decades are set in motion, all threaded together by the baseball as it passes from hand to hand. \n"It's all falling indelibly into the past," writes DeLillo, a past that he carefully recalls and reconstructs with acute grace. Jump from Giants Stadium to the Nevada desert in 1992, where Nick Shay, who now owns the baseball, reunites with the artist Kara Sax. They had been brief and unlikely lovers 40 years before, and it is largely through the events, spinoffs, and coincidental encounters of their pasts that DeLillo filters the Cold War experience. He believes that "global events may alter how we live in the smallest ways," and as the book steps back in time to 1951, over the following 800-odd pages, we see just how those events alter lives. This reverse narrative allows the author to strip away the detritus of history and pop culture until we get to the story's pure elements: the bomb, the baseball, and the Bronx. In an epilogue as breathless and stunning as the prologue, DeLillo fast-forwards to a near future in which ruthless capitalism, the Internet, and a new, hushed faith have replaced the Cold War's blend of dread and euphoria.\nThrough fragments and interlaced stories--including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others--DeLillo creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life, wonderfully distilled.\nFrom Library Journal\nOn October 3, 1951, there occurred two "shots heard round the world"?Bobby Thomson's last-minute homer, which sent the N.Y. Giants into the World Series, and a Soviet atomic bomb test. The fallout from these two events provides the nexus for this sagalike rumination on the last 50 years of American cultural history. DeLillo's opening depiction of the scene at the N.Y. Polo Grounds that day is masterly. Unfortunately, sustaining the initial brilliance proves difficult. There are some marvelously drawn characters?Sister Edgar, a vision-seeking nun of the old school; Ismael, a ghetto-based graffiti artist and budding capitalist; J. Edgar Hoover?and thought-provoking ideas, e.g., waste as the cornerstone of civilization and the power of remembered images lurking just beneath the surface of our minds. But somehow the various parts of the story seem more satisfying than the whole. DeLillo is one of our most gifted contemporary authors whose works belong in all academic and public libraries, yet one suspects that his truly "great" novel is yet to come. ( more information) Offered by Lady Lisa's Bookshop (United Kingdom)
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