Underworld
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
At the heart of Don DeLillo's monumental Underworld lies a single baseball — the one hit by Bobby Thomson in the 1951 Shot Heard 'Round the World — whose extraordinary journey through the American century binds together a vast, sprawling cast of characters across five decades of Cold War paranoia, consumerism, and cultural upheaval. Beginning with a bravura prologue set at the Polo Grounds and threading through the lives of waste management executive Nick Shay, artist Klara Sax, a street-smart Bronx kid, and a shadowy J. Edgar Hoover, the novel charts the secret connections that link private memory to public history, the sacred to the discarded, and the living to the dead. DeLillo writes with a pyrotechnic intensity that transforms the detritus of modern American life — nuclear waste, graffiti art, tabloid headlines, and landfills — into the very substance of myth. Underworld stands as one of the great American novels of the twentieth century, a work of staggering ambition that argues waste, both physical and psychic, is the defining legacy of postwar civilisation. DeLillo's prose — cinematic, allusive, and rhythmically hypnotic — demands and rewards total surrender, leaving the reader to wonder what, exactly, America has buried, and whether it can ever truly disappear.
Author: Don Delillo
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Ex-library with usual markings
At the heart of Don DeLillo's monumental Underworld lies a single baseball — the one hit by Bobby Thomson in the 1951 Shot Heard 'Round the World — whose extraordinary journey through the American century binds together a vast, sprawling cast of characters across five decades of Cold War paranoia, consumerism, and cultural upheaval. Beginning with a bravura prologue set at the Polo Grounds and threading through the lives of waste management executive Nick Shay, artist Klara Sax, a street-smart Bronx kid, and a shadowy J. Edgar Hoover, the novel charts the secret connections that link private memory to public history, the sacred to the discarded, and the living to the dead. DeLillo writes with a pyrotechnic intensity that transforms the detritus of modern American life — nuclear waste, graffiti art, tabloid headlines, and landfills — into the very substance of myth. Underworld stands as one of the great American novels of the twentieth century, a work of staggering ambition that argues waste, both physical and psychic, is the defining legacy of postwar civilisation. DeLillo's prose — cinematic, allusive, and rhythmically hypnotic — demands and rewards total surrender, leaving the reader to wonder what, exactly, America has buried, and whether it can ever truly disappear.