'Astonishing.A benchmark of twentieth-century fiction, Underworld is stunningly beautiful in its generous humanity, locating the true power of history not in tyranny, collective political movements or history books, but inside each of us.' -Greg Burkman, The Seattle Times It is the story of one man, one family, but it is also the story of what happened to America in the second half of the 20th century.' - The New York Times

' Underworld is an amazing performance, a novel that encompasses some five decades of history, both the hard, bright world of public events and the more subterranean world of private emotions. As DeLillo says and proves, 'Everything is connected in the end.'' - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World There's a viewing of a lost Eisenstein film, meditations on the Watts Tower, an evening at Truman Capote's Black & White Ball, a hot-air balloon ride, serial murders in Texas, a camping trip in the Southwest, a nun on the Internet, reflections on history, one hit (or possibly two) by the New York mob and an apparent miracle. It also depicts passionate adultery, weapons testing, the care of aging mothers, the postwar Bronx, '60s civil rights demonstrations, advertising, graffiti artists at work, Catholic education, chess and murder. Edgar Hoover, waste disposal, drugs, gangs, Vietnam, fathers and sons, comic Lenny Bruce and the Cuban Missile Crisis. 'This is a novel that draws together baseball, the Bomb, J. 'A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art.' - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Underworld then tells the story of Klara Sax and Nick Shay, and of a half century of American life during the Cold War and beyond.

The home run that won the game was called the Shot Heard Round the World, and was shadowed by the terrifying news that on the same day, Russia tested its first hydrogen bomb. It opens with a legendary baseball game played between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants in 1951. *With a new preface by Don DeLillo on the 25th anniversary of publication*ĭon DeLillo's mesmerizing novel was a major bestseller when it was published in 1997 and was the most widely reviewed novel of the year. 'A great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner.' - San Francisco Chronicle One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books Winner of the Howell's Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Description Finalist for the Pulitzer Prizeįinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

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