End Zone - Softcover

DeLillo, Don

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140085688 ISBN 13: 9780140085686

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

Synopsis

The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and shielded by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict. Among oddly afflicted and recognizable players, the terminologies of football and nuclear war--the language of end zones--become interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course. In this triumphantly funny, deeply searching novel, Don DeLillo explores the metaphor of football as war with rich, original zeal.

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Review:

America's greatest living writer. (Observer)

Nobody, it seems, could write better than this. No one could have a clearer vision of the micro-circuitry of post-modern life. (Evening Standard)

Powerfully funny, oblique, testy, and playful, tearing along in dazzling cinematic spurts . . . A masterful novel. (Washington Post)

Book Description:

A rich parody of the parallels between the jargon of football and the jargon of battle – and a touch of cold-war existentialism – makes this powerful novel as hilarious as it is relevant.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140085688
• ISBN 13: 9780140085686
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256