Chicago Sun-Times
"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
Literary Supplement
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
Michael Wood
The Names is a dense, brilliant, ultimately rather elusive meditation on the relation of this half-mythological America to the historical world.... It is a powerful, haunting book, formidably intelligent and agile. -- New York Times
New York Times Book Review
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
From the Publisher
"Brilliant...a powerful, haunting book." —The New York Times Book Review
"DeLillo's most accomplished novel." —Time
"Compelling...strange and wonderful and frightening." —The New Yorker
"Exotic, atmospheric, curiously suspenseful, full of characters at once unusual and fully realized...an extraordinarily original and enveloping piece of work." —Los Angeles Times Book Review
