The Names

Don Delillo

ISBN 10: 039452814X / ISBN 13: 9780394528144

Published by Knopf, 1982

About this Item

New York: Knopf, 1982. Signed first edition of "The Names" by Don Delillo. Boards show some slight toning, dust jacket is fine in mylar sleeve. Signature to title page. 339 pp.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1744223284397

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Names
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039452814X
• ISBN 13: 9780394528144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed First Editions

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Synopsis

In an expatriate's world of turmoil and danger, American risk analyst James Axton learns of a ritual-murder cult in the Aegean and follows the trail to its secret meanings in the ancient city of Lahore

From the Inside Flap

the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to m