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Book Description
Our lives, our half century.
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, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artContinue
Critics
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guardian.co.uk published on Sun, 26 Sep 2010
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Pass the parcel
Underworld is self-consciously a map of the American late 20th century. Yet to hold together its different characters and their stories, it relies on an old-fashioned, even quaint, fictional device. Running through this complex novel is the story of ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
4 Reviews
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Links
"The Power of History" (collateral essay by Don DeLillo):
http://nyti.ms/dzdDSVThe Rapture. Oct. 28, 1992:
http://bit.ly/hygVb3Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Triumph of Death:
http://bit.ly/7b4bCS
Pieter Bruegel the Elder Children's Games:
http://bit.ly/9sPHnh
James Mc ... (continue)míol mór said on Oct 22, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | 4 feedbacks
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I always thought that a four-range rating system is incomplete: you need a fifth star to mark masterworks.
This novel definitely gets five stars, as far as I'm concerned.
And I don't care what other people say, to me DeLillo is better than either Pynchon or Wallace.**********
All right, I ... (continue)míol mór said on Oct 2, 2009 | 2 feedbacks
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Speciale Don DeLillo - Underworld -
una recensione di Giorgio Michelangelo Fabbrucci
Underworld è un romanzo monumentale che pretende di essere affrontato con umiltà. Lo scrivo perché convinto che questo testo, una volta invecchiati, lo vedremo tra la ultime pagine dell’antologia di letteratura dei nostri nipoti, alla voce “Postmoder ... (continue)
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- English Books
- Paperback
- ISBN-10: 0965664120
- ISBN-13: 9780965664127
- Publisher: Scribner
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2001
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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The course of true life
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