The Names by Don DeLillo (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Names by Don DeLillo In an expatriates world of turmoil and danger, American risk analyst James Axton learns of a ritual-murder cult in the Aegean and follows the trail to its secret meanings in the ancient city of Lahore. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillos bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrators estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillos more recent and highly acclaimed works."The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times Author Biography Don DeLillo is the author of fifteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2010, he was awarded the PEN/Saul Bellow Prize. The Angel Esmeralda was a finalist for the 2011 Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2012, DeLillo received the Carl Sandburg Literary Award for his body of work. Review "Brilliant...a powerful, haunting book." --The New York Times Book Review"DeLillos most accomplished novel." --Time "Compelling...strange and wonderful and frightening." --The New Yorker"Exotic, atmospheric, curiously suspenseful, full of characters at once unusual and fully realized...an extraordinarily original and enveloping piece of work." --Los Angeles Times Book Review Review Quote "Brilliant...a powerful, haunting book." -- The New York Times Book Review "DeLillos most accomplished novel." -- Time Details ISBN0679722955 Author Don DeLillo Short Title NAMES Language English ISBN-10 0679722955 ISBN-13 9780679722953 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 1989 Imprint Random House USA Paperbacks Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Birth 1936 Residence US DOI 10.1604/9780679722953 AU Release Date 1989-07-17 NZ Release Date 1989-07-17 US Release Date 1989-07-17 UK Release Date 1989-07-17 Pages 352 Publisher Random House USA Inc Series Vintage Contemporaries Publication Date 1989-07-17 Replaces 9780394715643 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137977178;

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