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Don DeLillo United States of America    PWF 2011

 

"He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful."

 

A legendary figure of contemporary literature, Don DeLillo was born in 1936 in New York. For DeLillo, "writing is an intense form of thought — home a failed idea." His voice carries Hart Crane and Herman Melville. The Giants win the pennant.

 

DeLillo surprises us with the excitement of the revealed thing — "a series of reports that carry a comet's tail of secondary sound."  Then you lose him in the crowd.

 

"You die for people and the nation, your death is massive and intense. Die for the oppressors, die working for the exploiters and manipulators, die selfish and vain and you float away like a feather of the smallest bird."

 

His work includes: Running Dog, The Names, White Noise, Libra, Mao II, Underworld, Cosmopolis, The Body Artist, Falling Man, and Point Omega.

 

"People are no longer home or not home. They're either picking up or not picking up. The truth is I don't feel awkward. It's probably easier to talk to you this way. But that's not why I'm calling. I'm calling to describe the sunrise. A pale runny light spreading across the hills."

 

Don DeLillo lives in Bronxville, New York.

  

Novels

  

Americana (1971)
End Zone (1972)
Great Jones Street (1973)
Ratner's Star (1976)
Players (1977)
Running Dog (1978)
Amazons (1980) (under pseudonym "Cleo Birdwell")
The Names (1982)
White Noise (1985)
Libra (1988)
Mao II (1991)
Underworld (1997)
The Body Artist (2001)
Cosmopolis (2003)
Falling Man (2007)
Point Omega (2010)                                                                                                     

Zero K (2016)

Plays

The Engineer of Moonlight (1979)
The Day Room (1986)
Valparaiso (1999)
Love-Lies-Bleeding (2005)
The Word for Snow (2007)

Screenplays

Game 6 (2005)