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Don Delillo
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The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence.
At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and shielded by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict. Among oddly afflicted and recognizable players, the terminologies of football and nuclear war - the language of end zones - become interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course. In this triumphantly funny, deeply searching novel, Don DeLillo explores the metaphor of football as war with rich, original zeal.
©1972 Don DeLillo. All rights reserved. (P)2012 Audible, Inc. All rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Story4 out of 5 stars 22
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, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film rumored to “star” Adolph Hitler leads to trickery, maneuvering, and bloodshed. With streamlined prose and a thriller's narrative pace, Running Dog is a bright star in the modern master's early career.
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4 out of 5 stars
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"Imperialist lackeys and running dogs."
- By Darwin8u on 08-18-18
By: Don DeLillo
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Mao II
- By: Don DeLillo
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Story4 out of 5 stars 62
At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms. Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott; and the strange young woman who is Scott's lover - and Bill's.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Text Required but What A Treat!!!
- By Jason on 02-07-22
By: Don DeLillo
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White Noise
- By: Don DeLillo
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 880
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 768
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Story4 out of 5 stars 766
When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event", a lethal black chemical cloud floats over the Gladneys' lives. The menacing cloud is a more urgent and visible version of the "white noise" engulfing the Gladneys - radio transmissions, sirens, microwaves, ultrasonic appliances, and TV murmurings - pulsing with life yet suggesting something ominous.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Designed to be analyzed by an English class
- By RI in Canada on 10-15-16
By: Don DeLillo
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Zero K
- By: Don DeLillo
- Narrated by: Thomas Sadoski
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 395
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 345
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 342
Jeffrey Lockhart's father, Ross, is a billionaire in his 60s with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to lives of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say "an uncertain farewell" to her as she surrenders her body.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Everybody wants to own the end of the world...
- By Darwin8u on 05-11-16
By: Don DeLillo
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Underworld
- By: Don DeLillo
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 31 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 711
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 625
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Story4 out of 5 stars 629
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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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CYBEX burned into my eyes
- By Ruth Ann Orlansky on 07-01-12
By: Don DeLillo
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Cosmopolis
- By: Don DeLillo
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 139
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Story4 out of 5 stars 137
It is an April day in the year 2000 and an era is about to end, those booming times of market optimism when the culture boiled with money and corporations seemed more vital and influential than governments.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My favorite book
- By Alnia Perpoz on 08-18-09
By: Don DeLillo
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A Man Named Doll
- By: Jonathan Ames
- Narrated by: Jonathan Ames
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 551
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 482
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Story4 out of 5 stars 478
Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran of both the Navy and LAPD, Doll supplements his meager income as a P.I. by working through the night at a local Thai spa that offers its clients a number of special services. Armed with his 16-inch steel telescopic baton, biting dry humor, and just a bit of a hero complex, the ex-cop sets out to protect the women who work there from clients who have trouble understanding the word "no".
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3 out of 5 stars
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interesting writing, too brutal!
- By Lyn Relph on 05-13-21
By: Jonathan Ames
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Great Jones Street
- By: Don DeLillo
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4 out of 5 stars 24
Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. In midtour he bolts from his band to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment and separate himself from the paranoid machine that propels the culture he has helped create. As faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling farce he is trying to escape.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Dawning of the age of God knows what.
- By Darwin8u on 08-09-17
By: Don DeLillo
Provocative character development in a football story
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