Don DeLillo
1) White noise
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Language
English
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The story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys-radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The richest, wisest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don Delillo, one of the great American novelists of our time-- an ode to language, the heart of our humanity; a meditation on death and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a George Soros-like billionaire now in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a deeply remote and secret compound where death is controlled...
3) Libra
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Language
English
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Description
A fictional speculation of the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.
5) Mao II
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Language
English
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Writer Bill Gray enters the world of political violence leaving his two friends stranded as hostages.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
117 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something...
7) Underworld
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Language
English
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Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious...
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English
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For thirty years, since the publication of his first novel Americana Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American. Now, to a new century, he has brought The Body Artist In this spare, seductive novel, he inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies...
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English
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"Eric Packer, a billionaire asset manager at age twenty-eight, emerges from his penthouse triplex and settles into his lavishly customized white stretch limousine. On this day he is a man with two missions: to pursue a cataclysmic bet against the yen and to get a haircut across town." "His journey to the barbershop is a contemporary odyssey, funny and fast-moving. Stalled in traffic by a presidential motorcade, a music idol's funeral and a violent...
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English
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Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-collar prison and outer space, this small masterpiece of short fiction is a mesmerizing introduction to Don DeLillo's iconic voice. In "Creation," a couple at the end of a cruise somewhere in the West Indies can't get off the island-flights canceled, unconfirmed reservations, a dysfunctional economy. In "Human Moments in World War III," two men orbiting the earth, charged with gathering intelligence...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
117 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three unusual people--"defense intellectual" Richard Elster, who was involved in the management of the country's war machine; young documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who is intent on documenting Elster's experience; and Elster's daughter Jessica, who behaves like an "otherworldly" woman from New York--train their binoculars on the desert landscape of California and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws...
12) The names
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1982
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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 DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's 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...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
90 p. ; ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's a long drive.
It's gonna be.
I believe.
The Giants win the pennant.
The Giants win the pennant.
The Giants win the pennant.
The Giants win the pennant."
- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951
On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World," Don DeLillo reassembles in fiction the larger-than-life characters who on October 3, 1951, witnessed Bobby Thomson's pennant-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning. Jackie Gleason...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2005
Physical Desc
99 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a complicated love, his son, his young wife, the older woman -- his wife of years past -- who feels the emotional tenacity of a love long-ended. It is...
Author
Publisher
Alfre A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[1986]
Edition
Book Club edition.
Physical Desc
113 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Don DeLillo--one of America's most highly praised novelists--now gives us his first play: a brilliant black comedy that mixes laughter and terror as it uncovers the dimensions of sanity and identity hidden in each of us."--Publisher's description.
16) Game 6
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Playwright Nicky Rogan is a die-hard Red Sox fan who has lived his entire life in NYC. The opening of his new play is on the same day as the historic sporting event, Game 6 of the 1986 World series.
17) Cosmopolis
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Eric Packer, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager, heads out in his tricked-out stretch limo, while remotely wagering his company's massive fortune on a bet against the Chinese Yuan. Little does he know his perfectly ordered, doubt-free world is about to implode.
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
The film swirls around a self-centered filmmaker who during a screening of one of his films, wanders into an adjoining gallery and becomes mesmerized by a young performance artist. Dumping his leading lady and long-time lover, Rey embarks on a wild a delirious affair with the equally willing Laura. Holed up in Rey's remote country mansion, the couple appears to have found bliss, until, one day, Laura is disturbed by strange noises that turn out to...
