Delillo
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Simultaneously a reprise, summation of, and advance on everything that he has done before, it is a literary colossus, equal to any (and surpassing most) of the vaulting novels which strive for the immensity of the american mythic' geoff dyer, sunday telegraph 'with underworld, delillo confirms himself in the select group of great american writers truly equal to the temper of very strange times' times literary supplement 'mr delillo writes beautifullyreading the book is a charged and thrilling aesthetic experience and one remembers gratefully that this is what the novel can do, and indeed does, better than any other art form - it gets the human condition' william boyd, observer 'underworld is his biggest, most daring novel yetunderworld is a rousingly impressive achievement in almost every novelistic department - dialogue, structure, timing, precise description, heartfelt veracity and the restunderworld demands our full attentionthe reward is its great depth, shimmering prose and the feeling when we've put it down that we're a little wiser than we were' peter mckay, daily mail 'don delillo's latest novel really is one of the finest of the century' john burnside, scotsman see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham 'extraordinaryin underworld we have a mature and hugely accomplished novelist firing on all cylinders, at the sophisticated height of his multifarious powers
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Oxfam bookshop hexham the fiction of postmodernity is a significant and accessible new study of the relation of postmodern fiction to theories of the postmodernkey features*substantial readings of fiction by major contemporary authors (ethomas pynchon, salman rushdie, don delillo)*introduces influential theories of the postmodern (fredric jameson, jean-francois lyotard, jean baudrillard)*analysis of the relationships of modernism and the avant-garde to postmodernism*focuses on the critical potential of postmodernism and postmodern fiction see oxfam website for delivery information read morethe book offers descriptions of the postmodern from both the marxist critical tradition and from the perspective of postmarxismthe work of influential theorists of the postmodern - such as theodor adorno, jean-francois lyotard, fredric jameson and jean baudrillard - is explained and comparedissues relating to the postmodern representation of history and the development of a postmodern politics are also addressed in relation to works of contemporary fictioncontemporary works of fiction by novelists such as don delillo, toni morrison, salman rushdie, thomas pynchon and martin amis are viewed in relation to critiques of the 'culture industry', analyses of the 'postmodern condition' and theories of simulacrakey features in both these definitions are explained in relation to modernist and postmodern works of fiction
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Through their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words delillo proves himself a stunningly unsentimental observer of marriage, and of the idiosyncrasies that both isolate and bind usa beautiful book' independent on sunday see oxfam website for delivery information read more'a poised, individual ghost story for the twenty-first century' observer 'inspiringlauren is left alone, or so she thinksoxfam bookshop cheltenham the body artist opens with a breakfast scene in a rambling rented house somewhere on the new england coastwe meet lauren hartke, the body artist of the title, and her husband rey robles, a much older, thrice-married film-directorrey says he's taking a drive and he does, all the way to the manhattan apartment of his first wife
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Oxfam bookshop cheltenham libra - don delillo - see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Among the questions considered in the first section of the book are how does american romantic writing differ from european; what are the peculiar problems faced by the american artist, and what roles does he adopt to tackle them; what kind of writing results when authors as different as henry adams and mark twain lament the vanishing of an earlier america, or when adams and henry james review their complex relationship to their homeland, or when whowells and stephen crane seek to define their themes in a specifically american settingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam books & music aberdeen this book is about the relationship of the american writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by menthe second section of the book examines similar concerns in a number of contemporary writers, notably thomas pynchon, john barth, donald barthelme, john delillo, and william gass
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