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In "Players" DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple.... And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create.
Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning "White Noise" and the recent blockbuster "Underworld" ), "Players" is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renown today.
"The wit, elegance and economy of Don DeLillo's art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions."-- "New York Times Book Review"

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"The prose can be as dazzling as a waterfall... His disciples are right when they claim that few novelists have their fingers as close to the pulse of the end-of-millennium urban West." (Afshi Rattansi Guardian)

"Don DeLillo...is original, versatile, and, in his disdain of last year's emotional guarantees, fastidious.... Into our technology-ridden daily lives he reads the sinister ambiguities, the floating ugliness of America's recent history" (John Updike New Yorker)

"A witty, harrowing and superbly controlled novel about modern alienation and violence" (Washington Post)
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  • PublisherBallantine Books
  • Publication date1978
  • ISBN 10 0345275705
  • ISBN 13 9780345275707
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