Recommendations from our site
“It’s the kind of book that makes me want to make superlative, hyperbolic claims, like ‘the greatest novel of the twentieth century’… It’s such an extraordinarily vast and all-reaching book. Much of it is set in New York, and I think one thing DeLillo does so brilliantly—and does better than anyone else—is create a sense of cross-currents and coincidence. Of course, Manhattan is mainly a grid system of streets, so it really serves the book’s depiction of intersecting forces and intersecting lives…It’s a mind-blowing book, everyone should read it.” Read more...
Hermione Hoby on New York Novels
Hermione Hoby, Journalist
“This is DeLillo’s big, thick novel which ranges over several decades of American history. It’s a book about waste, about trash, about what society sweeps under the rug….Don DeLillo understands sport better than most as a very American enactment of the religious impulse. He understands sport as an American ritual and religion, with moments of collective catharsis or hysteria.” Read more...
Chad Harbach, Novelist
