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Don DeLillo has written seventeen novels, including White Noise, which won the National Book Award. It was followed by Libra, his bestselling novel about the assassination of President Kennedy; Mao II, which won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and the bestselling Underworld, which in 2000 won the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for the most distinguished work of fiction published in the prior five years. In 1999, DeLillo was awarded the Jerusalem Prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. His other books include the novels Cosmopolis, Falling Man, and Point Omega and the story collection The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories. He has also written occasional essays and three stage plays. In 2010 DeLillo became the third author to receive the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction. He was awarded the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013.
You may remember DeLillo's recent first novel Americana which never succeeded in getting it to gether although then, as again now, he seems to have at his natural command a kind of articulate mobility one cannot help but admire. This psychomythical (his word) abstraction is presumably about football but actually about speed ( speed is the last excitement left, the one thing we haven't used up ), violence, and penultimately and most particularly war. Much darker in tone than Robert Coover's Universal Baseball Association, it also deals with the game which is played on the field as well as those existential calisthenics which take place off it. . . football as a last archaic atavism, or as a surrogate for deadlier combat, or as a preface to the nuclear debacle which can't be far off. It's hard to take a body count of all those ideas which freefall off every page but then the thing to do is to walk in circles. And occasionally pause. . . . (Kirkus Reviews)
