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End Zone

By Don DeLillo

By Don DeLillo

By Don DeLillo

By Don DeLillo

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Jan 07, 1986 | ISBN 9780140085686

Ebook $6.99

Jan 07, 1986 | ISBN 9781101659861

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    About End Zone

    The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence

    At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and shielded by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict. Among oddly afflicted and recognizable players, the terminologies of football and nuclear war–the language of end zones–become interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course. In this triumphantly funny, deeply searching novel, Don DeLillo explores the metaphor of football as war with rich, original zeal.

    About End Zone

    The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence

    At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and shielded by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict. Among oddly afflicted and recognizable players, the terminologies of football and nuclear war–the language of end zones–become interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course. In this triumphantly funny, deeply searching novel, Don DeLillo explores the metaphor of football as war with rich, original zeal.

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    About Don DeLillo

    Don DeLillo is the author of sixteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from… More about Don DeLillo

    About Don DeLillo

    Don DeLillo is the author of sixteen novels, including Zero K, Underworld, Falling Man, White Noise, and Libra. He has won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize for his complete body of work, and the William Dean Howells Medal from… More about Don DeLillo

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 07, 1986 | 256 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780140085686

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 07, 1986 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9781101659861

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    Praise

    Praise for End Zone:

    “We’ve got the real thing in Don DeLillo. This is a wondrous work by an inventive talent.”
    —The Philadelphia Inquirer 

    “Wonderful . . . [End Zone] makes one wonder whether there are any limits at all to [DeLillo’s] potential growth.”
    —The New York Times

    “Powerfully funny, oblique, testy, and playful, tearing along in dazzling cinematic spurts . . . A masterful novel.” 
    —The Washington Post

    “Taut, witty, and resonant. The dialogue is sweaty and true.” 
    —The Boston Globe

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