Thick 8vo. Pp. 827, [5 (blank)]. Printed wraps.
Signed by DeLillo.
The author's magnum opus. Nominated for both the National Book and the National Book Critics Circle Awards (1997), the Pulitzer Prize (1998), and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (1999). Winner of the 1999 Jerusalem Prize and the 2000 William Dean Howells Medal for best work of fiction. Runner-up in the list of 25 best American novels of the last quarter-century (1980–2005), as selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review in 2006.
The complex relationship between 'waste analyst' Nick Shay and artist Klara Sax, shadowed throughout by the overarching conflict of the Cold War. DeLillo's mammoth novel opens with young Cotter Martin going to the 1951 Dodger-Giant playoff game and somehow coming away with the Thompson home run ball. Cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor abound. An excerpt, entitled "Pafko at the Wall," was originally published in a somewhat different form in the October 1992 issue of Harper's magazine. "[A] dazzling, phosphorescent work of art." –Michiko Kakutani, New York Times