By: | Don DeLillo |
Pages: | 827 |
Published: | Oct 3rd, 1997 |
Genre(s): | American |
Literary Fiction | |
Historical Fiction | |
Rating: | (5) |
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Nick Shay and Klara Sax knew each other once, intimately, and they meet again in the American desert. He is trying to outdistance the crucial events of his early life; she is an artist who has made a blood struggle for independence. Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching...
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I really struggled with this book, I’m not sure the writing style is for me. The book felt very long winded and whilst I enjoyed many of the characters and the way things unfolded, there were a lot of characters I couldn’t get enthralled with. Ah well. It’s not the worst book I’ve ever read!
Mar 4th, 2018
Not perfect but awesome nonetheless! Loved the juxtaposition of real events with fiction!!!
Sep 30th, 2017
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