- Fiction, general, United states, social life and customs, fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), American literature
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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Cool, prestige, contemplative and character-led.
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Don DeLillo
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 387
- Publisher
- Kiepenheuer & Witsch GmbH, Houghton Mifflin, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- German, English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780671819354
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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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