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Names
Don Delillo
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Description for Names
paperback. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346.
Don DeLillo's seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this ritualistic violence, an American risk analyst is drawn to search for an explanation. We follow his progress on an obsessive journey that begins to take over his life and the lives of those closest to him. In addition to offering a series of precise character studies, The Names explores the intersection of language and culture, the perception of America from both inside and outside its borders, ... Read more
Don DeLillo's seventh novel is an exotic thriller. Set mostly in Greece, it concerns a mysterious 'language cult' seemingly behind a number of unexplained murders. Obsessed by news of this ritualistic violence, an American risk analyst is drawn to search for an explanation. We follow his progress on an obsessive journey that begins to take over his life and the lives of those closest to him. In addition to offering a series of precise character studies, The Names explores the intersection of language and culture, the perception of America from both inside and outside its borders, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780330524865
SKU
V9780330524865
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About Don Delillo
Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise and Libra. He has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters ... Read more
Reviews for Names
Compelling . . . strange and wonderful and frightening.
New Yorker
A serious and complicated novel which deserves praise . . . an outstandingly well-written and constructed book.
Guardian
New Yorker
A serious and complicated novel which deserves praise . . . an outstandingly well-written and constructed book.
Guardian