{"product_id":"2026200014588-secondhand-underworld","title":"Underworld","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Ex-library with usual markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\n\nDeLillo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203120144603,"sku":"2026200014588-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2477eecb-31b4-4b6e-b16e-563ffed764cc.png?v=1788144529","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200014588-secondhand-underworld","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}