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Ostensibly, don delillos blackly comic second novel, end zone, is about gary harkness, a football player and student at logos college, west texas. End zone is don delillos second novel, published in 1972. Strangelove meets north dallas forty, solidified his place in the american literary landscape in the early 1970s. Gary harkness is a football player and student at logos college, west tex. The names however, is a pretentious exhibition on writing much about nothing. You may remember delillos recent first novel americana which never succeeded in getting it to gether although then, as again now, he seems to have at his natural command a kind of articulate mobility. Donald richard don delillo born november 20, 1936 is an american novelist, playwright and essayist.
End zone ebook tulsa citycounty library bibliocommons. It is a lighthearted farce that foreshadows much of his later, more. The art of fiction caryn james i never set out to write an apocalyptic novel don delillo from americana don delillo from end zone don delillo from players. But as the terminologies of football and nuclear war the language of end zones become interchanged, the polysemous nature of words emerges, and delillo forces us to see beyond the sterile reality of substitution. Set mostly in greece, it concerns a mysterious, isbn 9780330524865. You know the kind of books that take 5 pages to describe a football game. The book seems like it would be about football, but it focuses just as much on nuclear war. The second novel by don delillo, author of white noise winner of the national book award and zero kat logos college in west texas, huge young men, vacuumpacked into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. Don delillo at logos college in west texas, huge young men, vacuumpacked into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. Initially a wellregarded cult writer, the publication in 1985 of. Don delillo ebooks epub and pdf format don delillo ebooks. Myna, a student at logos college in west texas, is typical of delillos female characters.
In end zone, don delillo himself risks death by analogy by likening football to war. Don delillo has published fifteen novels under his own name since 1971, and here they are. This essay explores the similarities in how war and sports are depicted in don delillos. End zone las vegasclark county library district overdrive. Delillo spends much of the time describing in great detail characters who arent relevant to the story. Words, war, and meditation in don delillos end zone. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and. Al logos college, ununiversita sperduta nella periferiadella periferia del nulla, gary harkness ammazzail tempo tra una partita di football e laltra.
The story of an angstridden, warobsessed running back for logos college in west texas, end zone is a heady and hilarious conflation of cold war existentialism and the parodied parallelism of battlefieldsports rhetoric. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. End zone by don delillo overdrive rakuten overdrive. Of course no one talks like the characters in delillos books, but here that is sort of the joke. End zone ebook by don delillo 9781101659861 rakuten kobo. Donald richard delillo born november 20, 1936 is an american novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. The second novel by don delillo, author of white noise winner of the national book award and zero k at logos college i. The names isbn 9780330524865 pdf epub don delillo ebook. Apocalyptism, environmentalism and the other in don delillos end zone, great jones street and ratners starkatherine da cunha lewin university of sussex, uk3. Synopsis ostensibly, don delillos blackly comic second novel, end zone, is about gary harkness, a football player and student at logos college, west texas.
End zone italian edition by don delillo in chm, fb2, rtf download ebook. This clever and playful novel is a timeless and topical study of human beings obsession with conflict and confrontation. End zone by don delillo penguin random house canada. Reviews of the end zone up to now concerning the book weve got end zone pdf suggestions end users have not still quit his or her article on the action, or otherwise not read it yet. Among oddly afflicted and recognizable players, the terminologies of football and nuclear warthe language of end zonesbecome interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course. Of course no one talks like the characters in delillo s books, but here that is sort of the joke. The second novel by don delillo, author of white noise winner of the national book award. Read end zone by don delillo available from rakuten kobo. In this triumphantly funny, deeply searching novel, don delillo explores the metaphor of football as war with rich, original zeal.
In 1999, delillo was awarded the jerusalem prize, given to a writer whose work expresses the theme of freedom of the individual in society. I really enjoyed the book because i love reading books that go into lots of detail. Don delillo classic literature books products livros classic books livres book libri. Buy the paperback book end zone by don delillo at indigo.
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