| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780140077025 | | Publisher: Penguin Books | | Publish Date: 4/1/1991 | | Buy.com Sku: 30014758 | | Item#: R9GWG5 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 68799 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 7.75H x 5L x 0.75T |
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| | | | "The station wagons arrived at noon, a long shining line that coursed through the west campus..." (from the first line) Annotation:
In this bleak American comedy, Jack and Babette are a typical middle-class suburban couple until an accident in a chemical plant changes their lives. Babette becomes addicted to a Prozac-like experimental drug called Dylar that removes her horror of death, and Jack sees the hollowness of consumer culture, the modern media, and his academic life (as a professor of Hitler Studies at a New England college). DeLillo's meditation on love and death and American culture was a National Book Award-winner in 1985.
| Author Bio| Don DeLillo | | DeLillo was raised in the Bronx as a Catholic and was educated by Jesuits. More interested in sports than in literature, he discovered books when he held a boring summer job and had nothing else to do but read. He has a B.A. from Fordham (1958) and worked in advertising after graduation. He published his first short story in 1960. His first novel, AMERICANA, was published in 1971. DeLillo chronicles modern mass culture with an astute eye, and is considered one of the most important late 20th-century novelists. |
| Awards |
National Book Award (1985) |  | won, Fiction | | |
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