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A finalist for the National Book Award, Underworld is Don DeLillo’s most powerful and riveting novel — “a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner” (San Francisco Chronicle). Underworld is a story of men and women together and apart, seen in deep, clear detail and in stadium-sized panoramas, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. It is a novel that accepts every challenge of these extraordinary times. Don DeLillo's mesmerizing novel opens with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious outcome - the home run that wins the game is called the Shot Heard Round the World - shades into the grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb. With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, “this is DeLillo’s most affecting novel...a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). "Underworld surges with magisterial confidence through time (the last half century) and through space (Harlem, Phoenix, Vietnam, Kazakstan, Texas, the Bronx), mingling fictional characters with various heroes of cultural history (Si

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Author

Don DeLillo

Publisher

Scribner UK

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780330369954

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.92 / 5 (1,376 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14