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Americana by Don Delillo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 ...Show more
Americana: Penguin Street Art by Don DeLillo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Street Art
Don DeLillo's Americana - part of the limited edition Penguin Street Art series: timeless writing, enduring design. David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker ...Show more
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
$26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
It's a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who owns a forty-eight-room apartment and a decommissioned nuclear bomber and who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across the middle of Manhattan, he fi ...Show more
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn't know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, hi ...Show more
End Zone by Don DeLillo
$26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Gary Harkness is a football player and student at a college in Texas who becomes increasingly obsessed with the threat of nuclear war. He listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as military generals might contemplate global conflict.
Libra by Don DeLillo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A fictional speculation on the assassination of John F Kennedy, this work chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability, who imagines himself an agent of history.
Libra by Don Delillo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM. Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on ...Show more
Mao II by Don DeLillo
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut. As Bill enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, Bill's dangerou ...Show more
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
In the middle of a desert 'somewhere south of nowhere', to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war adviser has gone in search of space and time. Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. They asked him to ...Show more
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'"Point Omega" is a treat: the most satisfying and least cryptic of DeLillo's late novels' - "Sunday Telegraph". Richard Elster, a retired secret war adviser, has retreated to a forlorn house in a desert, 'somewhere south of nowhere'. But his planned isolation is interrupted when he is joined by a young ...Show more
Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground. There, away from the rest of the world, this panel of estranged, demented and lovable scientists work t ...Show more