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Underworld

A Novel

by Don Delillo

Recommended by Christopher Harris

Recommended by Christopher Harris

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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About New York City 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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