Underworld

by Don DeLillo | Science Fiction & Fantasy | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0684842696 Global Overview for this book
Registered by ink-heart of Wolfenbüttel, Niedersachsen Germany on 1/14/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by ink-heart from Wolfenbüttel, Niedersachsen Germany on Saturday, January 14, 2006
The blurb says:
Our lives, our half century.
Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence.
Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome - the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the Worlds - shades into the grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb.
The baseball itself, fought over and scuffed, generates the narrative that follows. It takes the reader deeply into the lives of Nick and Klara and into modern memory and the soul of American culture - from Bronx tenements to grand ballrooms to a B-52 bombing raid over Vietnam.
A generation's master spirits come and go. Lenny Bruce cracking desperate jokes, Mick Jagger with his devil strut, J. Edgar Hoover in a sexy leather mask. And flashing in the margins of ordinary life are the curiously connected materials of the culture. Condoms, bombs, Chevy Bel Airs, and miracle sites on the Web.

"Underworld" will go into my first English Bookbox. Enjoy!

Journal Entry 2 by jellycat from Frankfurt am Main, Hessen Germany on Friday, January 27, 2006
I took the book out of the box.

Journal Entry 3 by jellycat from Frankfurt am Main, Hessen Germany on Wednesday, January 17, 2007
I started to read this book a while ago but gave up after 200 pages. The story just couldn't grip me.

Released 16 yrs ago (8/28/2007 UTC) at Oxfam Buch Shop - Bücher CDs LPs - Schulstrasse in Darmstadt, Hessen Germany

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