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"Den faldende mand" er en roman om dagene efter den 11. september 2001. Vi befinder os i New York i dagene lige efter angrebet. Skolebørnene observerer med kikkerter himlen for at se, om Bill Lawton sender nye fly ind over byen. I romanen følger
The Body Artist begins with normality: breakfast between a married couple, Lauren and Rey, in their ramshackle rented house on the New England coast. Recording their delicate, intimate, half-complete thoughts and words, Don DeLillo proves himself a stunni
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stret
'An apocalyptic novel for our times' Guardian 'Horrifyingly resonant' Observer Superbowl Sunday, 2022. A couple wait in their Manhattan apartment for their final dinner guests to arrive. The game is about it start. The missing guests'
In this remarkable novel of menace and mystery, Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their 'ideal' life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex lif
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
An unparalleled work of historical conjecture, ranging imaginatively over huge tracts of the American popular consciousness, Don DeLillo's Libra contains an introduction by the author in Penguin Modern Classics. In this powerful, eerily convincing fic
'Think of two parallel lines. One is the life of Lee H. Oswald. One is the conspiracy to kill the President. What bridges the space between them? What makes a connection inevitable? There is a third line. It comes out of dreams, visions, intuitions, p
Jeffrey Lockhart has been summoned to The Convergence: a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely, cryogenically controlled. He is there to say goodbye to his stepmother, Artis, who has chosen to surrender her dying body; preserving it until
A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll. Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity. He lea
Den 3. oktober 1951 sidder Toots Shor, Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra og J. Edgar Hoover i en af New York Polo Grounds loger for at overvære mesterskabsopgøret mellem Brooklyn Dodgers og New York Giants. Mens Hoover får besked om, at russerne har foretaget
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 across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall view
"White Noise" by Don DeLillo is a sharp, absurd and hilarious satire about the modern life in the USA. Jack Gladney created and runs the Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill in a little American city. This is the main thing in his ordinary
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers. 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 h
'A literary colossus' The Sunday Telegraph 'A dazzling, phosphorescent work of art' The New York Times Don DeLillo's powerful epic, spanning fifty years of American history. Underworld opens famously at the Dodgers-Giants 1951 Nati
His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment of the American dream. Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising execut
Falling Man begins on September 11, in the smoke and ash of the burning towers. In the days and the years following, we trace the aftermath of this global tremor in the private lives of a few reticulated individuals. Theirs are lives choreographed by loss
Risk analyst James Axton lives in Athens and works across Greece and the Middle East, part of a community of American ex-pats that includes his estranged wife and child. Their peripatetic existence is interrupted when a horrific, unexplained murder on the
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - An "eerie, brilliant, and touching" ( The New York Times ) modern classic about mass culture and the numbing effects of technology. "Tremendously funny . . . A stunning performance from one of our most intellige
A finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Story Prize, the first ever collection of "dazzlingly told" ( The New York Times ) short stories--now available as a trade paperback. Set in Greece, the Caribbean, Manhattan, a white-coll
DeLillo's Running Dog , originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, w
Falling Man is a magnificent, essential novel about the event that defines turn-of-the-century America. It begins in the smoke and ash of the burning towers and tracks the aftermath of this global tremor in the intimate lives of a few people.There is Sept
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra , now a major motion picture starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig White Noise tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as th
En Super Bowl-søndag i nær fremtid skal fem mennesker mødes for at se kampen i en lejlighed på Manhattan. En pensioneret fysikprofessor og hendes mand samt en af hendes tidligere elever er der allerede. De venter på et par der er på vej med fly fra Paris
Da Eric Parker, 28 år og finansgeni, en dag i april 2000 forlader sin treetagers penthouselejlighed på Manhattans fashionable East Side og sætter sig ind i sin hvide luksuslimosine, har han kun to punkter på dagens program: et gigantisk spekulationsprojek
Dybt utilfreds med udfaldet af Cubakrisen beslutter nogle afdankede CIA-agenter at iscenesætte et mislykket attentat mod præsident John F. Kennedy. De planlægger at attentatforsøget efterfølgende skal tilskrives Fidel Castro for på den måde at skabe modvi
Don DeLillos "Hvid støj" er et overvældende og bizart portræt af det postmoderne USA. Jack Gladney leder Institut for Hitlerstudier på et universitet i en lille by i USA. Hans kollegaer er hovedsageligt optaget af popkultur og den amerikanske sj