Don Delillo's "Underworld"

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"Don DeLillo s massive novel Underworld is a stunning, at times overwhelming, document that limns the details and consequences of the Cold War and American popular culture especially of the middle decades of this century. DeLillo writes in an attempt to compel that swerve from evenness in which he finds events and people both wondrous and horrifying. With that combination of what in other quarters is called the switch from the sublime to the ridiculous, Underworld opens with a breathlessly graceful prologue set during the final game of the Giants-Dodgers pennant race in 1951. Written in what DeLillo calls super-omniscience the sentences sweep from young Cotter Martin as he jumps the gate to the press box, soars over the radio waves, runs out to the diamond, slides in on a fast ball, pops into the stands where J. Edgar Hoover is sitting with a drunk..."

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