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Underworld
novel by DeLillo
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American literature
- In American literature: Multicultural writing
…family portraits; and Don DeLillo’s Underworld (1997), a brooding, resonant, oblique account of the Cold War era as seen through the eyes of both fictional characters and historical figures. All three novels testify to a belated convergence of Social Realism and Pynchonesque invention. Pynchon himself returned to form with sprawling,…
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discussed in biography
- In Don DeLillo
…acclaim for the sprawling novel Underworld (1997), which provides a commentary on American history and culture in the Cold War era, in part by tracing the imagined journeys of the baseball that New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson hit for a pennant-winning home run in 1951. DeLillo’s subsequent works of…
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