Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Players

Players

Delillo, Don

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0679722939
ISBN13: 9780679722939
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Jul 17 1989
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their ideal life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory satisfaction than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple.... And still they remain untouched, players indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create.

Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today.

The wit, elegance and economy of Don DeLillo's art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions.--New York Times Book Review

Also from

Delillo, Don

View All

Also in

Literary Fiction

View All