The Names

Don DeLillo

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Random House
01 January 1992

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive ""sharply upward the size of his readership"" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

""The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own.""--Chicago Sun-Times

""DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark.""--Village Voice Literary Supplement

""DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism.""--New York Times

By: Don DeLillo
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Vintage Books ed
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 278g
ISBN: 9780679722953
ISBN 10: 0679722955
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages: 339
Publication Date: 01 January 1992
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Names

Brilliant...a powerful, haunting book. --The New York Times Book Review DeLillo's most accomplished novel. --Time Compelling...strange and wonderful and frightening. --The New Yorker Exotic, atmospheric, curiously suspenseful, full of characters at once unusual and fully realized...an extraordinarily original and enveloping piece of work. --Los Angeles Times Book Review

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