A Novel
by Don Delillo
Recommended by Christopher Harris
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Historical Fiction and Fiction.
A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo?s most powerful and riveting novel??a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling pageturner? (San Francisco Chronicle)?Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties ...
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Christopher Harris
“Today’s random grabandread from The Bookshelves is a li’l ol’ 850page American freakout, Underworld by Don DeLillo. If you’ve never read the first 60 or so pages (they were later sold separately as a novella) about the NY Giants Shot Heard Round The World, you should!”
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Consider The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Recommended by 5 sources.
“This sprawling, detail-rich historical novel follows cathedral builders, nobles, and townspeople across decades, delivering immersive scene-setting and a steady accumulation of plotlines. Its useful part is the sustained attention to craft—architecture, politics, rivalry—that makes the medieval world tangible. The main limitation is repetitive melodrama and swings in pacing: long, satisfying set pieces sit beside stretches that feel slow or contrived. Better read slowly rather than skimmed; readers who stick it out will find payoff in the concluding convergences.”
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