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  • Published: 30 April 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141905884
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

Americana




'He's a writer who, once you read him, makes you want to read everything he's done' Martin Amis, Sunday Times

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 for America's mid-west. His plan: to film the small-town lives of ordinary people and make contact with the true heart of his homeland. But as Bell puts his films together in his hotel room, he grows increasingly convinced that there is no heart to find. Modern America has become a land that has reached the end of its reel...

  • Published: 30 April 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141905884
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384

About the author

Don Delillo

Don DeLillo received the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1984. He has won the American Book Award, and the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize for his novel, Libra. He has written 16 novels, including the acclaimed works Underworld and White Noise, as well as plays, short stories and essays.

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