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Title: Americana by Don DeLillo ISBN: 0-14-011948-5 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Meet Huck Finn's evil twin
Comment: Though rambling and at times aimless, though missing the technical virtuosity of "Libra" and the sodden comic dread of "White Noise", Americana remains my favorite book by Don Delillo. The novel is a retelling of Huck Finn, in the persona of an all-around Golden Boy and very dead soul named David Bell. Bell, like Huck, lights out for the territory, but instead of a burlesque and edenic frontier, he finds a graveyard of flickering images, of a country at the end of its reel, spinning, flailing, disintegrating, full of phantoms. Twain's daguerotype of a giggling boy's swampy adventures is re-rendered by Delillo as a faithless young man's journey through an empty celluloid desert. Super-good.
Rating: 5
Summary: Delillo's first masterpiece
Comment: Don Delillo is an amazing writer. His prose, and the ideas contained in his novels, are so powerful they sometimes make me stop and catch my breath, and that's not hyperbole. I can't think of another contemporary author that moves me so much, with the possible exception of Saul Bellow. Reading his novels is pure joy, it's a wonder on every page, it's magic. I don't say that often.
I read somewhere that "The Names" was his first great novel, so I picked up "Americana" expecting to read the work of a budding author showing only flashes of brilliance. I found the writing and ideas expressed in "Americana" to be as fresh, brilliant, and moving as in any other book of his I've read. Delillo writes beautiful, highly intelligent novels that are also page-turners, and that's a rarity. He is, quite simply, a completely original American novelist, and "Americana" is a wonderful first novel.
Delillo should win the Nobel prize for literature some day, and I'd be very disappointed if he doesn't.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good, but diminished by time and imitation
Comment: this was the first book of his I read. It's a good novel but compard to today's world of Ellis and Palahnuik. I could see the impact it had back when is first came out, since it was a few years after "Easy rider" and has the same counter culture feel
the style and nuance of the book were greatly influtential to ninties independant cinema. the protagnist seems indifferent and at times boring. Delillos has writen fantastic novels, and this is him cutting his literary teeth
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Title: UNDERWORLD: A NOVEL by Don Delillo ISBN: 0684848155 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Mao II by Don DeLillo ISBN: 0140152741 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: End Zone by Don Delillo ISBN: 0140085688 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 1986 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Libra by Don DeLillo ISBN: 0140156046 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Names by Don DeLillo ISBN: 0679722955 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1989 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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