Editions

Americana

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241953389

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 266g

  • RRP: £8.99

Americana

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 viewers, they are of his making.

But David's dream is turning sour, nightmarish. He wants reality, to touch, feel and record what is real. He takes a camera and journeys across America in a mad, roving quest to discover and capture some sense of his own and his country's past, present and future.

Americana is Don DeLillo's brilliant first novel.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780241953389

  • Length: 384  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 23mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 266g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he has done

    Martin Amis, Sunday Times

  • DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country nightmare doesn't have a dull or unoriginal line

    Rolling Stone

  • Nearly every sentence rings true. DeLillo is a man of frightening perception

    Joyce Carol Oates

  • Witty, clever and incisive. Marvellously realised

    Time Out

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About the Author

Don DeLillo

The author of thirteen novels, five plays, and numerous short stories, Don DeLillo was born in 1936. Americana (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts come to the fore in White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award, and Underworld (1997), with its vivid portraits of actor Jackie Gleason and standup comedian Lenny Bruce.

Don DeLillo

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