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Americana
Don Delillo
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Description for Americana
Paperback. David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future. Americana is Don DeLillo's brilliant first ... Read more
David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future. Americana is Don DeLillo's brilliant first ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241953389
SKU
V9780241953389
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About Don Delillo
Don DeLillo was born and raised in New York City. He has written fifteen novels and three stage plays and has won many honours including the National Book Award for White Noise, the International Fiction Prize for Libra, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II, the Jerusalem Prize, the Howells Medal for Underworld and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for ... Read more
Reviews for Americana
Witty, clever and incisive. Marvellously realised
Time Out
Nearly every sentence rings true. DeLillo is a man of frightening perception
Joyce Carol Oates DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country nightmare doesn't have a dull or unoriginal line
Rolling Stone
A writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he has done ... Read more
Time Out
Nearly every sentence rings true. DeLillo is a man of frightening perception
Joyce Carol Oates DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country nightmare doesn't have a dull or unoriginal line
Rolling Stone
A writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he has done ... Read more