Name: Americana
SKU: 1543182
Price: 28.90 EUR
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Author: Don DeLillo

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Don DeLillo

Publisher

Penguin

Year

1989

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0140119485

ISBN13

9780140119480

Synopsis "Americana "

The first novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero KAt twenty-eight, David Bell is the American Dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals tobecome a top television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination.And the the dream--and the dream-making--become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture, to impose a pattern on his own, and America's past, present, and future.

Don DeLillo

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He is the author of sixteen novels and several plays. He has won numerous awards, such as the National Book Award for White Noise (1985; Seix Barral, 2006), the International Fiction Prize for Libra (1988; Seix Barral, 2006), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for Mao II (1991; Seix Barral, 2008), the Howells Medal for Underworld (1997; Seix Barral, 2009) and the PEN/Saul Bellow Award and the Jerusalem Prize for his entire career.

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