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White Noise: Great Books Edition
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Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threatens their town.
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Falling Man
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Falling Man begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and follows the aftermath in the intimate lives of a few individuals. This is the inner seam of history, a novel that traces the way the events of September 11th reconfigured our emotional landscape, our memory, and our perception of the world. It is beautiful, heartbreaking, and ...
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White Noise
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In this bleak American comedy, Jack and Babette are a typical middle-class suburban couple until an accident in a chemical plant changes their lives. Babette becomes addicted to a Prozac-like experimental drug called Dylar that removes her horror of death, and Jack sees the hollowness of consumer culture, the modern media, and his academic life ...
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Underworld
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In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of chronologically dislocated events. Additionally, history and facts scattered throughout the novel connect the reader to DeLillo's fictional world. After the reader discovers how these disjointed experiences ...
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White Noise Critical: Text and Criticism
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Don DeLillo, Mark Osteen (Editor)
Winner of the National Book Award in 1985, White Noise is the story of Jack and Babette and their children from their six or so various marriages. They live in a college town where Jack is Professor of Hitler Studies (and conceals the fact that he does not speak a word of German), and Babette teaches posture and volunteers by reading from the ...
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Libra
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In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When 'history' presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an ...
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The Body Artist
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After her husband's devastating suicide, a performance artist named Lauren Hartke becomes obsessed with her vacation house, which seems to be haunted. Delillo's 124-page novella--much shorter than his usual weighty novels--is enigmatic and slightly mysterious, exploring the resolutely closed and inner world of a woman who is trying to survive. A ...
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Cosmopolis
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Don DeLillo's 13th novel focuses on a 28-year-old billionaire, Eric Packer, on one fateful day in his life. It's April, 2000, and Eric spends most of the day being driven around Manhattan in his limo. From the back seat, he weathers a series of disasters, both economic (the yen is rising when Eric bet on its fall) and local (he and his driver meet ...
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Players
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A privileged young Wall Street couple named Pammy and Lyle feel unfulfilled and shortchanged even though they lead an enviable life. Then terrorists attack on the floor of the Stock Exchange, and a colleague of Lyle's is killed. This act of violence releases something in the two, and their lives change drastically: Lyle becomes involved with a ...
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Americana
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A young television executive takes to the road in the 1960s with a movie camera to capture his own past in a "cinema verite" documentary. Within this framework, he delivers his observations on the influence of film, modern corporate life, young marriage, New York City and hipness.
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The names
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Set in Greece (where DeLillo lived for a few years) and the Middle East, this novel is about an American businessman, a "risk analyst" for a company that insures multinational corporations against acts of political terrorism. He becomes fascinated by a mysterious cult on an Aegean island and embarks on an impassioned search for an archaeologist ...
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Ratner's Star
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Billy Twillig has won the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics. Set in the near future, this book charts an innocent's education when Billy is sent to live in the company of 30 Nobel laureates and he is asked to decipher transmissions from outer space. By the author of "Libra".
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End zone
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DeLillo has said that END ZONE, his famous "football novel," isn't about football at all but about "extreme places and extreme states of mind." This complex comic parable tells the story of a young football player at a Texas college, where the games played on the field parallel the wider game of nuclear warfare.
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Mao II
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A famous reclusive novelist becomes involved with international terrorism, finding through involvement in a dubious cause an escape from the doomed book he is working on. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
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Great Jones Street
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The narrator of this novel is Bucky Wunderlick, a Dylan-Jagger amalgam who finds he's gone as far as he knows how. Mid tour he leaves his rock band and holes up in a dingy East Village apartment, in Great Jones Street. The plot revolves around his retreat and a drug designed to silence dissidents.
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Pafko at the Wall: A Novella
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"There's a long drive. It's gonna be. I believe. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant. The Giants win the pennant." -- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951 On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on ...
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Names V564
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Set in Greece (where DeLillo lived for a few years) and the Middle East, this novel is about an American businessman, a "risk analyst" for a company that insures multinational corporations against acts of political terrorism. He becomes fascinated by a mysterious cult on an Aegean island and embarks on an impassioned search for an archaeologist ...
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Running dog
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This novel moves from New York City's Lower East Side to Georgetown to Dallas in a cross-country search for a legendary pornographic film starring Adolf Hitler.
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Valparaiso: A Play in Two Acts
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This play premiered at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge in January 1999. An ordinary businessman named Michael Majeski, en route to Valparaiso, Indiana, mysterious lands instead in Valparaiso, Florida and then Valparaiso, Chile-a series of misadventures that turn him into an international media curiosity and threatens to destroy his ...
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White Noise
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Jack Gladney, head of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill, is afraid of death, as is his wife Babette and his colleague Murray who runs a seminar on car crashes. The author exposes our common obsession with mortality, and Jack and Babette's biggest fear - who will die first?
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The Day Room
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"The Day Room", Don DeLillo's first play, is a black comedy that explores the chaos caused when the onlooker is unsure of the status of a team of medics in a psychiatric unit. Are they really bona fide staff or patients just pretending to be?
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Love-Lies-Bleeding: A Play
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"Love-Lies-Bleeding," Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection. Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is ...
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Valparaiso: A Play
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A man sets out on an ordinary business trip to Valparaiso, Indiana. It turns out to be a mock-heroic journey toward identity and transcendence. This is Don DeLillo's second play, and it is funny, sharp, and deep-reaching. Its characters tend to have needs and desires shaped by the forces of broadcast technology. This is the way we talk to each ...
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Steppenwolf at 25: A Photographic Celebration of an Actor's Theater
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Victor Skrebneski (Photographer), Don DeLillo (Text by), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Text by)
To celebrate 25 years of extraordinary achievement by the legendary Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago, acclaimed photographer Victor Skrebneski has created an impressive photography book featuring historical production highlights and exclusive portraits of America's most gifted ensemble of artists. Steppenwolf at 25 also contains personal ...
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Conversations with Don Delillo
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Don DeLillo, Thomas Depietro (Editor)
Conversations with Don DeLillo Edited by Thomas DePietro In novel after award-winning novel, Don DeLillo (b. 1936) exhibits his deep distrust of language and the way it can conceal as much as it reveals. Not surprisingly, DeLillo treats interviews with the same care and caution. For years, he shunned them altogether. As his fiction grew in ...
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