Don DeLillo
Born
in New York City, The United States
November 20, 1936
Genre
Influences
White Noise
154 editions
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1985
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Underworld
133 editions
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published
1997
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Libra
71 editions
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published
1988
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Falling Man
90 editions
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published
2007
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Mao II
33 editions
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published
1991
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The Body Artist
92 editions
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published
2001
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Zero K
65 editions
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published
2016
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The Silence
52 editions
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published
2020
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Point Omega
65 editions
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published
2010
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Américana
54 editions
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published
1971
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“Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.”
― Conversations with Don Delillo
― Conversations with Don Delillo
“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.”
― The Names
― The Names
Polls
July 2023 New School Classic Group Read
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene, 1940, 222 pages
The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham, 1919, 192 pages
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 226 pages
True Grit by Charles Portis, 1968, 224 pages
White Noise by Don DeLillo, 1985, 310 pages
On the Beach Nevil Shute, 1957, 296 pages
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