Americana

ISBN: 0140119485

Author: DeLillo, Don

Condition: New

DeLillos swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn't have a dull or an unoriginal line.-Rolling StoneThe first novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The SilenceAt 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 top television executive. Davids world is made up of the images that flicker across Americas screens, the fantasies that enthrall America's imagination.When, at the height of his success, the dream (and the dream-making) become a nightmare, David sets out to rediscover reality. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture and to impose a pattern on Americas-and his own-past, present, and future.