Americana
$24.99
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
7 November 2011
Summary
Reissue with a stunning new package for this classic DeLillo novel
David Bell embodies the American dream. He’s twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America’s screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making.
But David’s dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241953389 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241953383 |
| Author: | Don DeLillo |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 7 November 2011 |
| Weight: | 273g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Penguin Street Art |
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DeLillo’s swift, ironic, and witty cross-country nightmare doesn’t have a dull or unoriginal line
A writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he has done – Martin Amis * Sunday Times *DeLillo’s swift, ironic, and witty cross-country nightmare doesn’t have a dull or unoriginal line * Rolling Stone *Nearly every sentence rings true. DeLillo is a man of frightening perception – Joyce Carol OatesWitty, clever and incisive. Marvellously realised * Time Out *
About The Author
Don DeLillo
Don DeLillo was born and raised in New York City. He has written fifteen novels and three stage plays and has won many honours including the National Book Award for White Noise, the International Fiction Prize for Libra, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II, the Jerusalem Prize, the Howells Medal for Underworld and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction.
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