Americana
Don DeLillo
"Nearly every sentence ofAmericana rings true, an insistence upon the authenticity behind the stereotypes...DeLillo is a man of frightening perception." -- Joyce Carol Oates, The Detroit News At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American Dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a high-powered television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination. And then the dream--and the dream-making--become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture a sense of his own and his country's past, present, and future. NB:"In preparing this edition for publication, the author has made some cuts in the original text; there is no new material." [on copyright page]
- Pages
- 377
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- ISBN
- 0140119485