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The author of thirteen novels, five plays, and numerous short stories, Don DeLillo was born in 1936. Americana (1971), his first novel, announced the arrival of a major literary talent, and the novels that followed confirmed his reputation as one of the most distinctive and compelling voices in late-twentieth-century American fiction. DeLillo's comic gifts come to the fore in White Noise (1985), which won the National Book Award, and Underworld (1997), with its vivid portraits of actor Jackie Gleason and standup comedian Lenny Bruce.
Latinists have been waiting for this for almost thirty years.... Anyone who loves Latin will relish A Commentary on Horace: Odes Book III. It has, after all, been worth the wait.... The strengths of Nisbet and Rudd's new commentary are very great, and are a function of the extraordinary attention to detail throughout. Its sheer utility value is very high.... Even if we must face the fact that we will never have a commentary on the fourth book from Nisbet's hand, we shall be forever grateful that Rudd was able to make possible the appearance of this volume, a cap to their distinguished careers, and a monument that will endure beside the other two. --Times Literary Supplement<br> Much hard thinking lies behind Horace's verse, which Nietzsche called 'lapidary.' Nabokov, that connoisseur of commentary, would have cherished this commentary, as will anyone who reads poetry as it should be read--SLOWLY. --Tom D'Evelyn, Providence Journal (Favorite Books of 2004)<br> Nisbet and Rudd complete a series of three magisterial commentaries...on the three books of Horace's masterpiece of collected Odes.... This third volume matches its predecessors in deploying an awesome erudition in the service of sensitive and precise literary analysis. Essential. --Choice<br>
