En aquesta seductora novel·la, DeLillo recrea el silenciós món de Lauren Hartke, una artista de l'art conceptual, creadora d'unes obres que desafien els límits del cos. Lauren, de trenta-sis anys, es casada amb un director de cinema força mes gran que ella, Rey Robles, de seixanta-quatre. La mort de Rey es el detonant de tota una crisi, d'una reflexio que va mes enlla de les paraules. Lauren es trasllada a la seva enorme casa llogada fora de la ciutat i alla descobreix que hi ha un home vivint en una de les habitacions. Qui es aquest home ple de misteri, de qui es dificil endevinar-ne l'edat i que s'expressa d'una manera tan estranya? Quan de temps fa que es alla? Com pot ser que pugui imitar tan fidelment la veu de Lauren i la de Rey? De vegades l'home sembla autista, altres vegades un alien o un fantasma. Junts començaran un viatge dins la salvatgia del temps, l'amor i la percepcio humana.
Set in Greece (where DeLillo lived for a few years) and the Middle East, this novel is about an American businessman, a "risk analyst" for a company that insures multinational corporations against acts of political terrorism. He becomes fascinated by a mysterious cult on an Aegean island and embarks on an impassioned search for an archaeologist who may hold the secret of the cult's meaning.
The narrator of this novel is Bucky Wunderlick, a Dylan-Jagger amalgam who finds he's gone as far as he knows how. Mid tour he leaves his rock band and holes up in a dingy East Village apartment, in Great Jones Street. The plot revolves around his retreat and a drug designed to silence dissidents.
Recounting the story of Lee Harvey Oswald, this novel concentrates on the inner life of the people who shaped the Kennedy assassination. The author also wrote The Names, Ratner's Star, Players and White Noise which won the American Book Award.
"The Day Room", Don DeLillo's first play, is a black comedy that explores the chaos caused when the onlooker is unsure of the status of a team of medics in a psychiatric unit. A
Opens at the Shea Stadium at the World Series Game of 1951, where the ball is caught by a young, black man in the crowd, and continues to change hands throughout the book. The various recipients of the ball tell the story of post-war US history giving a panorama of America from the 50s to the 90s.
Partiendo de una sencilla y simple anécdota se va hilvanando una historia que recorrerá los últimos cincuenta años de la historia americana. El 3 de octubre de 1951 tuvo lugar en Nueva York un partido de beisbol en el que un bateador consiguio un golpe extraordinario, el mismo dia la Union Sovietica llevaba a cabo su primera prueba nuclear. Delillo parte de una anecdota y propone al lector una inmersion en los ultimos 50 años de Estados Unidos.
