End Zone
Author | : Don DeLillo |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 0330426451 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780330426459 |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Gary Harkness is a football player and student at Logos College, West Texas. During a season of unprecedented success on the football field, he becomes increasingly obsessed with 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 military generals might contemplate global conflict. Offering a timely and topical look at human beings' obsession with conflict and confrontation, End Zone is a clever, playful and, above all, funny novel, which confirms DeLillo's status as one of the great American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and reaffirms the unerring incisive accuracy of his portrayal of the modern world.