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15 de feb. de 2024 · Players. A novel by Don DeLillo, 1977. Published by Knopf, 1977, 212 pages. Jacket painting is "Blue Surrounded" (1972) by Cecile Gray Bazelon 1927-2023 (see photos below, and note the character in "The Day Room"), jacket design by Lidia Ferrara. Paperbacks issued by Ballantine, 1978, and later by Vintage.
28 de mar. de 2012 · Don DeLillo, the author of numerous novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise and Libra, has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld.
Furthermore, DeLillo's employment of genre in each novel indicates that this is a continuous project, with the thriller genre adopted by Lyle Wynant in Players as a means of escaping the un- certainty of late twentieth century America, abandoned by Glen Selvy in Running Dog , when it proves inadequate to the task.
Players. Don Delillo’s fifth novel, a mordantly witty satire on contemporary America, explores the psychology of banality. His major characters are bored—bored nearly to madness by the dull ...
DeLillo does not simply describe this game – though he does that brilliantly – but he sets it up with the players and their imaginary conversations and with the conversations and actions of the spectators, both the fictional characters of his novel but also real ones, including Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason, Edgar J Hoover and the restaurant owner, Toots Short, all of whom may or may not ...
20 de oct. de 2020 · Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of Covid-19. The Silence is the story of a different catastrophic event. Its resonances offer a mysterious solace. It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former ...
1 de ene. de 1977 · Players [DeLillo, Don] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Players. Skip to main content.us. Delivering to Lebanon 66952 ... In this "crisp, cool, observant" novel (The New Leader), Don DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, ...
