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The Names

The Names

Delillo, Don

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 0679722955
ISBN13: 9780679722953
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jul 17 1989
Pages: 339
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.83 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.96
Language: English
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 still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's 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

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