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DeLillo, D: End Zone

By Don DeLillo

DeLillo, D: End Zone

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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. Ostensibly, DeLillo's blackly comic second novel is about Gary Harkness, a football player and student at Logos College, West Texas. During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly obsessed with the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies of football and nuclear war - the language of end zones - become interchanged, the polysemous nature of words emerges, and DeLillo forces us to see beyond the sterile reality of substitution. This clever and playful novel is a timeless and topical study of human beings' obsession with conflict and confrontation.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
240
Release Date:
2011-03-04
Publication Date:
2011-03-04
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0330524968
ISBN13:
9780330524964
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
200 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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