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Summary: "Six thousand five hundred couples are married at Yankee Stadium. A famously reclusive writer has his picture taken. A Swiss UN worker is held hostage in Beirut. Don DeLillo's novel is about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. Haunted by such diverse figures as Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong, it takes us from New York to London to Beirut, terror's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1991
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Summary: The Gladney's family life is disrupted and threatened when an industrial accident sends a lethal cloud over their community. Jack Gladney struggles with the ensuing complications which include murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1985
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Summary: This second volume in the Library of America DeLillo edition collects two extraordinary novels he published in the 1990s, the peak of his career. In the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning Mao II (1991), the celebrated novelist Bill Gray has withdrawn into seclusion, his everyday affairs managed by a pair of assistants. And yet within the protective solitude he has built for himself he still finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2023
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Summary: Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age 28, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town. His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003
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Summary: "It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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Summary: Keith made it through 9/11 alive; Keith and his family have to deal with the aftermath.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2007
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Summary: This first volume in the Library of America Don DeLillo edition presents three indispensable novels from the 1980s, published here with new prefaces from the author. The Names (1982) was DeLillo's breakthrough novel, a book that, as he reflects here, spanned a "broader expanse" than his earlier novels. James Axton, a "risk analyst" tasked with assessing dangers for his corporate clients from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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Summary: The richest, wisest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don Delillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-- an ode to language, the heart of our humanity; a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a George Soros-like billionaire now in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2016
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Summary: Collects nine short stories written between 1979 and 2011 that chronicle three decades of American life from the perspective of a range of characters, including a pair of nuns in the South Bronx and two astronauts orbiting the Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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Summary: Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. We are born without...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2016