Americana

by Don DeLillo Narrated by George Newbern

Overview

At twenty-eight, David Bell is the American dream come true. He has fought his way to the top, surviving office purges and scandals to become a high-powered television executive. David's world is made up of the images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination.

And then the dream-and the dream-making-become a nightmare. At the height of his success, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture a sense of his own and his country's past, present, and future.

Editorial Reviews

Joyce Carol Oates

"Nearly every second of 'Americana' rings true, and insisted upon the authenticity becomes stereotypes....DeLillo is a man of frightened perception."

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

"The language soars in depth, under them parts a great deal." -- New York Times

Nelson Algian

"Don DeLillo's swift, ironic, witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or unoriginal line." -- Rolling Stones

From the Publisher

Praise for Americana:

"DeLillo's swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or an unoriginal line." 
—Rolling Stone

"Nearly every sentence of Americana rings true, an insistence upon the authenticity behind the stereotypes . . . DeLillo is a man of frightening perception."
—Joyce Carol Oates, The Detroit Sunday News

"There have been many—too-many—novels in which the protagonist tries to find himself: here is one in which he tries to lose himself."
—The New York Times

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170597178
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	12/27/2016
Edition description:	Unabridged

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