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The Names

9780679722953

The Names

  • ISBN 13:

    9780679722953

  • ISBN 10:

    0679722955

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 07/17/1989
  • Publisher: Vintage

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Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece,The Namesis 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 inThe Namesare 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 Namesstands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works. "The Namesnot 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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