- Baseballs, Cold War, Ex-convicts, Executives
Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep clear detail and in stadium sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of The Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary -- Don DeLillos's greatest and most powerful work of fiction. -Back Cover
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- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Don DeLillo
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 832
- Publisher
- Picador USA, Edicions 62, Circe
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Italian, English, German, cat
- ISBN
- 9780330937641
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“I was driving a Lexus through a rustling wind.”
Donald Richard DeLillo (Don DeLillo) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist, DeLillo's works centers on subjects as diverse as TV, nuclear war, sports, language, performance art, the Cold War, the digital age, politics, economics, and terrorism.
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