by Don DeLillo
It is over too soon. She stays outside, listening to the last small rustle of their voices falling. It is still dark and she feels a chill in the smoky air. The city is quiet for the first time since she arrived. She examines the silence. She looks out past the rooftops, westward. There is a flash out there in the dark near a major checkpoint. Then another in the same spot, several more, intense and white. She waits for the reciprocating flash, the return fire, but all the bursts are in one spot and there is no sound. What could it be then if it’s not the start of the day’s first exchange of automatic-weapons fire? Only one thing of course. Someone is out there with a camera and a flash unit. Brita stays on the balcony for another minute, watching the magnesium pulse that brings an image to a strip of film. She crosses her arms over her body against the chill and counts off the bursts of relentless light. The dead city photographed one more time.
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Americana
A young television executive, driven by the power of the image, gives up his job to travel the country with a hand-held movie camera and create a personal version of the American dream. ISBN 978-0-14-011948-0
End Zone
Amid collisions on the football field, a running back becomes fascinated with thoughts of nuclear conflict. As the season progresses, the barriers of language collapse and the games of football and warfare become virtually interchangeable.
ISBN 978-0-14-008568-6
Great Jones Street
Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and popular icon, becomes jaded with the anti-culture he has created and drops out of society, holing up in a squalid East Village apartment. Nightmarish and post-apocalyptic, this is a frightening look into a decaying culture.
ISBN 978-0-14-017917-0
Libra
Don DeLillo creates a complex and passionate novel about Lee Harvey Oswald and the JKF assassination—an event that has indelibly altered the American psyche. Winner of the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. ISBN 978-0-14-015604-1
Mao II
A reclusive literary celebrity abandons the failed novel he has been working on and enters a world of political violence. DeLillo’s extraordinary book is an investigation into the relentless power of terror and iconography with “images so radioactive ... they glow afterward in our minds” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award. ISBN 978-0-14-015274-6
White Noise
The New Republic calls White Noise “a stunning performance from one of our most intelligent novelists.” This masterpiece of the media age is the story of Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler Studies in Middle America, whose life is suddenly disrupted by a lethal black chemical cloud. Winner of the National Book Award.
ISBN 978-0-14-007702-5
Also available in a Viking Critical Library Edition ISBN 978-0-14-027498-1
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