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Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threatens their town.Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Putnam INC International Concepts, Penguin USA
ISBN-100140274987
ISBN-139780140274981
eBay Product ID (ePID)93476187
Product Key Features
AuthorDon. Delillo
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterature, Poetry & Criticism
Additional Product Features
Place of PublicationNew York, Ny
Spine25mm
Edited byMark Osteen
Pagination538
Series TitleThe Viking Critical Library
Author BiographyDon DeLillo published his first short story when he was twenty-three years old. He has since written twelve novels, including White Noise (1985) which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra (1988), his novel about the assassination of President Kennedy, and by Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.In 1997, he published the bestselling Underworld, and in 1999 he was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of the freedom of the individual in society; he was the first American author to receive it. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Out-Of-Print Date29/01/2010
Date of Publication03/12/1998
Country of PublicationUnited States