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Underworld

By (author) Don DeLillo
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Picador
Published: 4th Mar 2011
Dimensions: w 129mm h 191mm d 47mm
Weight: 570g
Interest age: From 18 years
ISBN-10: 0330524976
ISBN-13: 9780330524971
Barcode No: 9780330524971
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Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet, another highly significant shot was fired: the USSR's first atomic detonation. And so begins a masterpiece of gloriously symphonic storytelling. Don DeLillo loosely follows the fate of the winning baseball as the book swells and rolls through time. He offers a panoramic vision of America, defined by the overarching conflict of the cold war. This is an awe-inspiring story, seen in deep, clear detail, of men and women, together and apart, as they search for meaning, survival and connection in the toughest of times.

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America's greatest living writer. * Observer * A literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the American mythic. -- Geoff Dyer * Sunday Telegraph * A rousingly impressive achievement in almost every novelistic department - dialogue, structure, timing, precise description, heartfelt veracity and the rest . . . In Underworld we have a mature and hugely accomplished novelist firing on all cylinders, at the sophisticated height of his multifarious powers. -- William Boyd * Observer *