Underworld
by DeLillo, Don
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0684842696
- ISBN 13
- 9780684842691
- Seller
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Argillite, Kentucky, United States
Item Price
£11.07£9.97
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About This Item
NY: Scribner's, 1997. BCE/BOMC. Hardcover_boards. Fine/Fine. 6.25"x9.5" 827 pgs. Black boards w/Bronze metallic letters on spine. Book design by Eric Hobbing. DJ by Carol Carson. Author photo by Joyce Ravid. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean w/soft tone. Not x-library, unclipped (no price), & unmarked. Secure ship w/track #. Our lives, our half century. Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life, haunted by the hard logic of loss and by the echo of a gunshot in a basement room. She is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. 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.
The baseball itself, fought over and scuffed, generates the narrative that follows. It takes the reader deeply into the lives of Nick and Klara and into mo...Source: Publisher.
The baseball itself, fought over and scuffed, generates the narrative that follows. It takes the reader deeply into the lives of Nick and Klara and into mo...Source: Publisher.
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- Seller
- Blacks Bookshop (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 15460
- Title
- Underworld
- Author
- DeLillo, Don
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover_boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- BCE/BOMC
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0684842696
- ISBN 13
- 9780684842691
- Publisher
- Scribner's
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1997
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