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Americana by Don Delillo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York ...Show more
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful April day in turn-of-the-twenty-first-century Manhattan. He's on a personal odyssey, to get a haircut. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across town, he finds the ci ...Show more
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
It's a stunningly eventful day in the life of Eric Packer, a multi-billionaire who owns a forty-eight-room apartment and a decommissioned nuclear bomber and who has recently married the heiress of a vast European fortune. Sitting in his stretch limousine as it moves across the middle of Manhattan, he fi ...Show more
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Eric Packer is a twenty-eight-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager. He lives in Manhattan. We join him on what will become a particularly eventful day in his life. When he woke up, he didn't know what he wanted. Then he knew. He wanted to get a haircut. As his stretch limousine moves across town, hi ...Show more
End Zone by Don DeLillo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
During a season of unprecedented success, Gary becomes increasingly fixated on the threat of nuclear war. Both frightened and fascinated by the prospect, he listens to his team-mates discussing match tactics in much the same terms as generals might contemplate global conflict. But as the terminologies o ...Show more
Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Bucky Wunderlick is a rock and roll star. Dissatisfied with a life that has brought fame and fortune, he suddenly decides he no longer wants to be a commodity.He leaves his band mid-tour and holes up in a dingy, unfurnished apartment in Great Jones Street. Unfortunately, his disappearing act only succee ...Show more
Libra by Don DeLillo
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A fictional speculation on the assassination of John F Kennedy, this work chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability, who imagines himself an agent of history.
Libra by Don Delillo
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Reimagining the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F Kennedy, this title concentrates on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency, and Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist, trying to make sense of or draw inferences from the ma ...Show more
Libra by Don Delillo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Friday, November 22, 1963. 12.30 PM. Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on ...Show more
Mao II by Don DeLillo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.Bill Gray, a famous, reclusive novelist, emerges from his isolation when he becomes the key figure in an event staged to force the release of a poet hostage in Beirut.As Bill enters the world of polit ...Show more
Point Omega by Don DeLillo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the middle of a desert 'somewhere south of nowhere', to a forlorn house made of metal and clapboard, a secret war adviser has gone in search of space and time. Richard Elster, seventy-three, was a scholar - an outsider - when he was called to a meeting with government war planners. They asked him to ...Show more
Ratner's Star by Don DeLillo
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Billy Twillig, a genius adolescent, wins the first Nobel Prize ever to be given in mathematics, he is recruited to live and work in the company of thirty Nobel laureates in obscurity underground. There, away from the rest of the world, this panel of estranged, demented and lovable scientists work t ...Show more