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Americana: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Don DeLillo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2006
His first novel, Don DeLillo'sAmericanapassionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream.

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 for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel...

Don DeLillo (b.1936) was born and raised in New York City.Americana(1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts come to the fore inWhite Noise(1985), which won the National Book Award,Underworld(1997), hailed by Martin Amis as 'the ascension of a great writer',Cosmopolis(2003), adapted into a film by David Cronenberg, due to be released later this year, andFalling Man(2007), a novel about the aftereffects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.

If you enjoyedAmericana, you might like DeLillo'sLibra, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'He's a writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he's done'
Martin Amis,Sunday Times

'Witty, clever and incisive ... a marvellously realized plot'
Time Out

'Nearly every sentence ofAmericanarings true ... DeLillo is a man of frightening perception'
Joyce Carol Oates
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141188232
ISBN-10: 0141188235
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

The author of thirteen novels, five plays, and numerous short stories, Don DeLillo was born in 1936. Americana (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts come to the fore in White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award, and Underworld (1997), with its vivid portraits of actor Jackie Gleason and standup comedian Lenny Bruce.

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"Nearly every sentence of Americana rings true, an insistence upon the authenticity behind the stereotypes....DeLillo is a man of frightening perception." --Joyce Carol Oates, The Detroit Sunday News


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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.
But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future.
Americana is Don DeLillo's brilliant first novel.


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At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a top television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And then the dream--and the dream-making--become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality.