Book description
Gary Harkness is a football player and student at Logos College, West
Texas. During a season of unprecedented success on the football field,
he becomes increasingly obsessed with 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 military generals
might contemplate global conflict. Offering a timely and topical look at
human beings' obsession with conflict and confrontation,
End Zone
is a clever, playful and, above all, funny novel, which confirms
DeLillo's status as one of the great American writers of the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries, and reaffirms the unerring incisive accuracy
of his portrayal of the modern world. Don DeLillo is the author of two
plays and thirteen novels, including Underworld
and The Body Artist
. He has won the National Book Award, the Jerusalem Prize and the
Irish Times
International Fiction Prize.
