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Americana by Don Delillo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York ...Show more
Americana: Penguin Street Art by Don DeLillo
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Street Art
Don DeLillo's Americana - part of the limited edition Penguin Street Art series: timeless writing, enduring design. 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 ...Show more
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn't know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, hi ...Show more
Libra by Don DeLillo
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
A fictional speculation on the assassination of John F Kennedy, this work chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability, who imagines himself an agent of history.
Libra by Don Delillo
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM. Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on ...Show more
The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories by Don DeLillo
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: 16
This is Don DeLillo's first collection of short stories, written between 1979 and 2011; in it he represents the wide range of human experience in contemporary America - and forces us to confront the uncomfortable shadows lurking in the background. His characters are plagued by their own deep, often unco ...Show more
The Silence by Don DeLillo
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic ...Show more
The Silence by Don DeLillo
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
From one of the most dazzling and essential voices in American fiction, a timely and compelling novel set in the near future about five people gathered together in a Manhattan apartment, in the midst of a catastrophic event. Don DeLillo completed this novel just weeks before the advent of Covid-19. The ...Show more
White Noise by Don DeLillo
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jack Gladney is the creator and chairman of Hitler studies at the College-on-the-Hill. This is the story of his absurd life; a life that is going well enough, until a chemical spill from a rail car releases an 'Airborne Toxic Event' and Jack is forced to confront his biggest fear - his own mortality. "W ...Show more
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