false 408 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 408 12 2320 1982 The Names total:690|5:155|4:237|3:204|2:70|1:24| 690 2499 1024 77 233 3.66 29410 2969 39509076 708858 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.63 679 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 5 2 false Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Sun Dec 07 08:23:51 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 07 14:15:54 -0800 2008 3? more...]]> 18681153 905014 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 4 2 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 10:04:28 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 10:21:03 -0700 2008
Parts of The Names read like a tract of linguistic idealism. One of the characters, Owen Brademas, (who is obsessed with alphabets, the shape of words, and a cult that kills people based on their initials’ matching place names) posit...more...]]> 10781830 245237 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 20 17:06:44 -0800 2007 Thu Jan 10 11:58:51 -0800 2008 more...]]> 21756059 1056992 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 3 1 false Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 21:35:28 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 20:32:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 77488843 1739169 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 2 0 false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 11 17:20:36 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 17:29:37 -0800 2009 more...]]> 181886 13218 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 4 1 false Tue Mar 06 18:39:48 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 16 16:22:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 80585852 787522 527023 0394715640 9780394715643 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226541486m/527023.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226541486s/527023.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/527023.The_Names 3.67 3 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 4 0 false Wed Dec 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 15:14:01 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 23 23:10:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4076644 251129 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 1 1 false Sat Aug 04 12:37:51 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 03:43:57 -0800 2009 64805493 2535939 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 4 0 false Fri Jul 24 11:44:47 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 11:44:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 30139238 1243000 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 3 0 false Mon Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 10:03:09 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 21:26:56 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 25255550 955080 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 1 0 false Mon Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 17:24:51 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 17:34:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 13284010 820032 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 2 1 false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jan 23 10:39:04 -0800 2008 Tue May 26 19:37:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 10976128 713192 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 3 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Dec 24 18:15:00 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 24 19:46:02 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2602332 164857 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 5 0 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 1995 Sun Jul 01 16:01:13 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 03 07:42:59 -0700 2007
This book follows a man who is some kind of risk assessor in in the Middle East. It is set in th...more...]]> 34391335 1581822 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 4 0 false Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Thu Oct 02 15:42:47 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 08 12:14:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 23176234 852861 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 3 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 28 18:51:06 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 18:34:55 -0700 2008 The Names was enough to make me want to read more Don DeLillo, even after an awful brush with Cosmopolis. I'll admit there were plenty of pages during which I wasn't completely sure I understood what I was reading, but the language alone kept me going. DeLillo's diction was so precise and lyrical ...more...]]> 6262450 381976 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 4 0 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 19:30:58 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 03 20:36:45 -0700 2007
'I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of course. If two countries fight that do not supply the Americans with some precious commodity, then the education of the public does not take place. But when the dictator falls, when the o...more...]]> 23491159 1204474 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 0 0 true Sun Jun 01 21:51:20 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 21:55:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 65335997 2558817 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 4 0 false Tue Jul 28 18:12:55 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 18:16:32 -0700 2009 me: It has Don DeLillo's stand in flirting with a girl
It is the most awful flirting I have ever seen
Her dialogue reads like she is stuck inside of a car that is being compacted
and then they go outside]]> 52033128 1271086 408 0679722955 9780679722953 74 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985m/408.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1156916985s/408.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/408.The_Names 3.62 690 The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator's estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo's more recent and highly acclaimed works.

"The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times

"DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement

"DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times]]> 1982 5 0 false Wed Apr 08 23:51:21 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 00:10:46 -0700 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=408