![]() With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. The glorious outcome - the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the World - shades into the grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times - Don DeLillo's greatest and most powerful work of fiction.ĭon DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. ![]() A finalist for the National Book Award, Underworld is Don DeLillo’s most powerful and riveting novel-“a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner” ( San Francisco Chronicle). ![]()
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