
1999 Shortlist
Underworld
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Underworld begins with a legendary baseball game played in New York in 1951. The glorious result, and the winning ‘Shot Heard Around the World’, shades into the grim news that the Soviet Union has just tested an atomic bomb. The baseball itself generates the narrative that follows, taking the reader deeply into the lives of the two main protagonists, Nick and Klara, and into modern memory and the soul of American culture. Don DeLillo has written eleven novels and has won the National Book Award (USA) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Date published
27/10/1997
Country
United States
Original Language
English
Publisher
Prentice Hall and IBD