Hum it, DeLillo is back on track
Zero K, By Don DeLillo
Fiction, Zero K, By Don DeLillo, Picador, €18.60
In 1997, Don DeLillo published Underworld: a vast, diffuse, almost embarrassingly rich account of America’s postwar decades, dense with the miraculous perceptions that have marked DeLillo’s vision since the publication of his first novel, Americana in 1971. DeLillo’s reputation, already stratospheric, went into orbit. Martin Amis articulated the consensus view: “DeLillo suddenly fills the sky [...] Underworld renders DeLillo a great novelist.”
Even at the ...
