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Title: Don DeLillo's Underworld: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) by John N. Duvall ISBN: 0-8264-5241-8 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Just about Perfect
Comment: An excellent explication of DeLillo's most massive, sprawling fustercluck of brilliance. Along with DeLillo's White Noise, Underworld will still be read when we're all dead, and Duvall concisely crystallizes many of the reasons why. Underworld burrows beneath the sometimes shiny, sometimes scary surfaces of an enormous range of seemingly disparate Cold War territory, and Duvall goes a very long way (in a remarkably short space) toward putting together its pieces, and illuminating its insights. I read this reader's guide after reading Underworld, and it made me want to read the novel again. Bravo!!
Rating: 4
Summary: a difficult task, well done
Comment: How do you even begin to analyze the magnitude of DeLillo's achievement in 'Underworld'? This little book is a good place to start. Professor Duvall gives a brief and informative sketch of DeLillo's life and career to date and then dives into the meat of his book, wrestling with some of the themes - it would be impossible to do them all - of the novel. He comes over as well-informed, sharp and widely read, without ever being pretentious about it. And the book is even up-to-date enough to discuss the post 9/11 resonance of the novel's cover image.
At times a little dry for my taste, but that is a minor quibble. Duvall has packed a lot of thought into a nicely packaged book.
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Title: Introducing Don Delillo by Frank Lentricchia ISBN: 0822311445 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: American Magic and Dread: Don Delillo's Dialogue With Culture by Mark Osteen ISBN: 0812235517 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
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Title: Underwords: Perspectives on Don Delillo's Underworld by Joseph Dewey, Steven G. Kellman, Irving Malin, University of Delaware Press ISBN: 0874137853 Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.50 |
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Title: Don DeLillo's White Noise: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) by Leonard Orr ISBN: 0826414745 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) by Stephen Burn ISBN: 082641477X Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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