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'A literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the American mythic' Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph Underworld opens - famously - at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 National League final, where Bobby Thomson hits The Shot Heard Round the World and wins the pennant race for the Giants. But on the other side of the planet, another highly significant shot was fired: the USSR's first atomic detonation. And so begins a masterpiece of gloriously symphonic storytelling. ...

Underworld 2011, Picador, London

ISBN-13: 9780330524971

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Underworld 1998, Picador, London

ISBN-13: 9780330354325

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Underworld 1997, Simon & Schuster Audio, New York, NY

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Underworld

2011, Mass-market paperback

ISBN-13:

9780330524971

Underworld

2007, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9781416548645

Underworld

1998, Trade paperback

ISBN-13:

9780684848150

Underworld

1998, Other

ISBN-13:

9780330369954

Underworld

1998, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780330354325

Underworld

1997, Hardcover

ISBN-13:

9780684842691

Underworld

1997, Audiobook cassette

ISBN-13:

9780671577094

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SeldomSeen

Dec 17, 2007

Deep But Very Still

Though Underworld is a deep book, it is a long, long slog. With over eight hundred pages, multiple POVs, a scrambled chronology, a legion of characters, celebrity cameos, several intertwined themes and very little real action, Mr. DeLillo makes his readers work for very little reward. The book is ambitious. There?s a lot to think about and discuss. It?s a portrait of America during the Cold War and exposes the thin veneer of normalcy that covers the terrifying reality of both society and individual?the underworld. Yes, I get it. An avid reader, it took me almost a month, however, to get through it. For those of us whose reading time is precious and crave at least a modicum of action and entertainment in our stories, Underworld will disappoint. This is a novel only an English professor can love.

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