End Zone [electronic resource]
DeLillo, Don2011
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During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies of football and nuclear war – the language of end zones – become interchanged, the polysemous nature of words emerges, and DeLillo forces us to see beyond the sterile reality of substitution. This clever and playful novel is a timeless and topical study of human beings' obsession with conflict and confrontation. Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Main title:
End Zone [electronic resource] / Don DeLillo
Author:
DeLillo, Don, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pan Macmillan, 2011
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Don DeLillo is the author of many bestselling novels, including Point Omega, Falling Man, White Noise, Libra and Zero K, and has won many honours in America and abroad, including the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work and the William Dean Howells Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his novel Underworld. In 2010, he received the PEN/Saul Bellow Award. He has also written several plays.
ISBN:
9780330525718
Language:
English
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BRN:
3818448
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