Book description
Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising
executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he
is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan
office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt
decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the
small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart
of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room,
he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern
America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel... The
author of thirteen novels, five plays, and numerous short stories, Don
DeLillo was born in 1936. Americana (1971), his first novel, announced
the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed
confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling
voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts
come to the fore in White Noise (1985), which won the National Book
Award, and Underworld (1997), with its vivid portraits of actor Jackie
Gleason and standup comedian Lenny Bruce.
