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Americana by Don DeLillo
Category: Fiction
David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making.
Americana by Don Delillo
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York ...Show more
Americana: Penguin Street Art by Don DeLillo
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Street Art
Don DeLillo's Americana - part of the limited edition Penguin Street Art series: timeless writing, enduring design. David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker ...Show more
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Category: General Fiction
Een dag uit het leven van een jonge multimiljonair die met de dood wordt bedreigd.
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Category: Fiction
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn't know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, hi ...Show more
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Category: Fiction
It's a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who owns a forty-eight-room apartment and a decommissioned nuclear bomber and who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across the middle of Manhattan, he fi ...Show more
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Category: Fiction
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the ci ...Show more
End Zone by Don DeLillo
Category: Fiction
Ostensibly, DeLillo's blackly comic second novel is about Gary Harkness, a football player and student at Logos College, West Texas. During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly obsessed with the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to ...Show more
End Zone by Don DeLillo
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies o ...Show more
End Zone by Don DeLillo
Category: Fiction
Gary Harkness is a football player and student at a college in Texas who becomes increasingly obsessed with the threat of nuclear war. He listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as military generals might contemplate global conflict.