Don DeLillo
Autor(a) de White Noise
About the Author
Don DeLillo was born in the Bronx, New York on November 20, 1936. He received a bachelor's degree in communication arts from Fordham University in 1958. After graduation, he was a copywriter for an advertising company and wrote short stories on the side. His first story, The River Jordan, was mostrar mais published two years later in Epoch, the literary magazine of Cornell University. His first novel, Americana, was published in 1971. His other works include Ratner's Star, The Names, Libra, Underworld, The Body Artist, Cosmopolis, Falling Man, Point Omega, and The Angel Esmeralda, a collection of short stories. He won several awards including the National Book Award for fiction in 1985 for White Noise, the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1992 for Mao II, the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction in 2010, and the inaugural Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2013. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Don DeLillo
Amazons: An intimate memoir by the first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League (1980) 72 cópias
Don DeLillo: Three Novels of the 1980s (LOA #363): The Names / White Noise / Libra (Library of America, 365) (2022) 62 cópias
Submón [1 : Pròleg. Parts 1-3] 2 cópias
Midnight in Dostoevsky 2 cópias
Linha Final 2 cópias
איש נופל 1 exemplar(es)
Human Moments in World War III {short story} 1 exemplar(es)
Baader-Meinhof 1 exemplar(es)
Don't Leave the Century Without It 1 exemplar(es)
"Woman in the distance" [press clipping] 1 exemplar(es)
The Itch 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Contribuinte — 248 cópias
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contribuinte — 133 cópias
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contribuinte — 62 cópias
Hebbes 2 : 15 smaakmakers voor het voorjaar — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Delillo, Don
- Outros nomes
- Birdwell, Cleo
- Data de nascimento
- 1936-11-20
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- The Bronx, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- New York, New York, USA
- Educação
- Fordham University (BA|1958)
- Ocupação
- novelist
- Premiações
- Jerusalem Prize (1999)
Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award (1995)
Irish Times International Fiction prize (1989)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1984)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1979)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2007) (mostrar todas 9)
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2013)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1989)
Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2012)
Membros
Discussions
Group Read, March 2018: Underworld em 1001 Books to read before you die (Março 2018)
White Noise by Don DeLillo, (Bowie's Top 100 for June) em 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Junho 2016)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 44
- Also by
- 32
- Membros
- 43,686
- Popularidade
- #386
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 736
- ISBNs
- 853
- Idiomas
- 30
- Favorito
- 196
The novel is listed on "The Greatest Books.org", and won the National Book Award. My copy had
a long and thoughtful forward, and about 100 pages of afterword analysis and interviews with the author. I acknowledge that the author wrote an insightful satire of late 20th century life...specifically consumerism, mass media and academia. The FEAR of DEATH is more than a a theme in the story. It is a character. The fear of death inspires adultery and attempted murder, among other poor life choices we allegedly make in order to suppress it.
Although it is thought provoking, I found it depressing and anxiety producing. Glad to be finished with it.… (mais)