Identify the Don DeLillo novel that contains this quote:
"The largest island in the world," Marvin said. "But you don't know anyone who's ever been there. And the size keeps changing. What's more, listen to this, the location also changes. Because if you look closely at one map and then another, Greenland seems to move. It's in a slightly different part of the ocean. Which is the whole juxt of my argument."
a. White Noise
b. Libra
c. Underworld
d. Falling Man
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"The largest island in the world," Marvin said. "But you don't know anyone who's ever been there. And the size keeps changing. What's more, listen to this, the location also changes. Because if you look closely at one map and then another, Greenland seems to move. It's in a slightly different part of the ocean. Which is the whole juxt of my argument."
a. White Noise
b. Libra
c. Underworld
d. Falling Man
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Don DeLillo
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November 20, 1936
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male
place of birth
Bronx, New York, The United States
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Literature & Fiction
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Don DeLillo is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He currently lives outside of New York City.
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White Noise (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by Don DeLillo avg rating 3.87 — 9,941 ratings — published 1984 28 editions |
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The Body Artist: A Novel by Don DeLillo avg rating 3.12 — 1,681 ratings — published 2001 22 editions |
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Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo avg rating 2.97 — 1,026 ratings — published 2002 27 editions |
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The Names by Don DeLillo avg rating 3.64 — 660 ratings — published 1982 12 editions |
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Americana by Don DeLillo avg rating 3.42 — 591 ratings — published 1971 14 editions |
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Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo avg rating 3.42 — 570 ratings — published 1973 8 editions |
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"California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom."
— Don DeLillo (White Noise)
— Don DeLillo (White Noise)
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"No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die."
— Don DeLillo (White Noise)
— Don DeLillo (White Noise)
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