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Americana

By Don DeLillo

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| eBook | 9780141905884

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Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New YContinue

Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel...

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  • Americana

    Manager di una grande rete televisiva anni sessanta, David Bell è un giovane che considera la propria bellezza e il look un punto di forza per essere sempre considerati ed accettati negli uffici e nei luoghi esclusivi che frequenta. Nemmeno trentenne ... (read full critics)

    mangialibri published on Fri, 17 Feb 2012

  • Americana

    La trama e le recensioni di Americana, romanzo di Don DeLillo. Ventotto anni, bello, manager di una grande rete televisiva: David Bell è il sogno americano diventato realtà. Cinico yuppie ante litteram nella New York degli anni Settanta, si nutre del ... (read full critics)

    Qlibri published on Tue, 30 Nov 2010

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  • I must say Don De Lillo, with White Noise, in the first place, and then Ratner's Star and Americana, led me through my reading in original language in an enchanting, astonished haze all over these last months.

    As a non-mother tongue reader, I found this novel quite affordable under the language res ... (continue)

    I must say Don De Lillo, with White Noise, in the first place, and then Ratner's Star and Americana, led me through my reading in original language in an enchanting, astonished haze all over these last months.

    As a non-mother tongue reader, I found this novel quite affordable under the language respect, and then again, the style is really enticing, and the strong sense of disappointment and void of the main character is beautifully rendered while rising to a climax of deep frustration as the tale comes to an end

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