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  End Zone

  End Zone is the title of Don DeLillo's second novel published in 1972. It is a light-hearted farce that preshadows much of his later, more mature work. Set at small Logos College in West Texas, End Zone is narrated by Gary Harkness, a blocking back on the American football team during that school's...
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  The Names

  The Names is the seventh novel written by the American novelist Don DeLillo, first published in 1982. The novel, set mostly in Greece, is primarily a series of character studies, interwoven with a plot about a mysterious "language cult" that is behind a number of unexplained murders. Among the many...
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  Running Dog

  Running Dog is a literal translation into English of the Chinese/Korean communist pejorative, 走狗 'Zou Gou', meaning lackey. Its first recorded use in English was in 1937. Running Dog is also the title of a 1978 novel by Don DeLillo. At its center is a rumored pornographic film of Adolf Hitler,...
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  Fail-Safe

  Fail-Safe is a novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, published in 1962. The popular and critically acclaimed novel was first adapted into a 1964 film of the same name directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, and Walter Matthau. In 2000, the novel was adapted again for...
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  Players

  Players is Don DeLillo's fifth novel, published in 1977. It follows Lyle and Pammy Wynant, a young and affluent Manhattan couple whose casual boredom is overturned by their willing participation in chaotic detours from the everyday. Lyle works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and spends...

• The Waterworks

  The Waterworks is an novel by E. L. Doctorow, written in 1994. The setting of the novel is New York in the year 1871. Martin Pemberton, a freelance journalist, was at odds with his father Augustus, who died a few years ago. After his father’s death, Martin sees his father, briefly and accidentally...