Underworld: a literary fiction classic, spanning fifty years of American history - Softcover

DeLillo, Don

  • 3.95 out of 5 stars
    33,791 ratings by Goodreads
 
9780330369954: Underworld: a literary fiction classic, spanning fifty years of American history

Synopsis

Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra and Zero K, and 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 for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title