Underworld

By Don DeLillo

Subjects: New york (n.y.), fiction, History, Cold War, Fathers and sons, fiction, Public relations, American fiction (fictional works by one author), World Series (Baseball) fast (OCoLC)fst01409714, World Series (Baseball), Women artists, Fiction, Cold War (1945-1989) fast (OCoLC)fst01754978, Executives, 1971-, Fathers and sons, Women artists, fiction, Ex-convicts, Roman, 1945-1970, M¿urs et coutumes, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, Baseballs, Mœurs et coutumes, Fiction, general, Baseball stories

Description: Nick Shay and Kiara Sax knew each other once, intimately and they meet again in the Sahara 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 conflict of The Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary -- Don DeLillos's greatest and most powerful work of fiction. -Back Cover