Underworld - Don Delillo

A gloriously fused history of the past 50 years that offers a key to understanding American culture, Underworld moves through the nation's diverse landscapes, analyzing the mesmerizing interplay between two central characters, and (offering) us another history of ourselves, the unofficial underground moments (Michael Ondaatje). A National Book Award Finalist. nA finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo's most powerful and riveting novel--a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner (San Francisco Chronicle)--Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties and again in the nineties. nWith cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, this is DeLillo's most affecting novel...a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).n