Wow. Reading DeLillo's Underworld was like taking a TGV across the south of France with Arabic MTV blaring on the television, listening to Madonna sing pseudo-religious pop-songs over drum-and-bass on a minidiscman, drinking an Horchata, smoking a joint and knowing at the core of your being that this chaotic, haphazard world we inhabit makes sense! This book really rocked the foundations of post-modern fiction for me, bringing together several of the elements that tipify this genre and exploding them.
It loosely follows the stories of an artist, a writer, a killer, a nun and a grafiti artist, bringing these characters together more though their shared common experiences and through the social currents they are all bound in than through intermingling their narratives. The novel reads sort of like Joan Didion on speed, or Thomas Pynchon on queludes: every single page has something remarkable to it, a turn of phrase that only DeLillo could create, or a sentence so well executed it leaves you stunned, nailed to your seat.
If you liked White Noise, by DeLillo, or if you like David Foster Wallace, or Joyce Carol Oates, or even if your tastes run to John Grisham or Tom Clancy, you'll love this book. It would be impossible not to. Underworld is a fantastic American fable for the next millenium.
Don DeLillo was awarded the 1999 Jerusalem Prize for a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society.More at Barnes & Noble.com
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