New Releases by Don Delillo

Keith Neudecker emerge de una enorme nube de humo aferrándose a un maletín y, cubierto de cenizas y cristales rotos, deambula confuso por las calles de Manhattan hasta llegar, sin saber cómo ni por qué, a la casa de su mujer, de la que lleva un tiempo separado, y de su hijo. Es el 11 de septiembre de 2001. El mundo ha cambiado para siempre. Ya no hay un antes, tan sólo queda un después. ¿Pero cómo imaginarlo siquiera? El hombre del salto es una novela que sobrecoge, asombra, hipnotiza. Don DeLillo esculpe cada palabra para contar cómo la devastación afecta las vidas de un pequeño grupo de personas entre las que se encuentra la familia de Keith, pero también abre una ventana a la paradójica normalidad con que uno de los terroristas, Hammad, se prepara para el martirio. La crítica ya considera El hombre del salto como la mejor novela de DeLillo, calificándola de «obra maestra», atribuyéndole la capacidad que sólo los grandes novelistas tienen de ayudarnos a comprender y fijar nuestra propia historia.«La mejor novela de DeLillo. Nadie más podía abordar el 11-S como él», Publishers Weekly ; «Extraordinaria... Prodigiosa», The New York Observer; «Leyéndolo tienes que acordarte de seguir respirando», New Statesman; «El mayor acierto literario que jamás haya inspirado el 11-S... una obra maestra. El mejor libro de Don DeLillo», The Irish Times; «Exquisitamente escrita... tan intensa que atrapa al lector. Es sin duda el punto más alto de la significativa carrera de DeLillo», Kirkus Reviews; «Tiene todos los elementos de un best seller», New York Magazine.

Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo''s third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection. Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex Macklin, who gave up easel painting to do land art in the southwestern desert, and he is seventy now, helpless in the wake of a second stroke. The people around him are the bearers of a complicated love, his son, his young wife, the older woman -- his wife of years past -- who feels the emotional tenacity of a love long-ended. It is their question to answer. When does life end, and when should it end? In this remote setting, without seeking medical or legal guidance, they move unsteadily toward last things. Luminous, spare, unnervingly comic and always deeply moving, Love-Lies-Bleeding explores a number of perilous questions about the value of life and how we measure it.

Throughout long profiles and conversations--ranging from 1982 to 2001--the renowned author makes clear his distinctions between historical fact and his own creative leaps

Tras el inexpicable suicidio de su marido, Lauren Hartke regresa a la vieja casa junto al mar donde ambos estaban pasando sus primeros meses de matrimonio. Que indujo al veterano director de cine Rey Robles a quitarse la vida? Abrumada por el dolor, su viuda trata en vano de recomponer el rompecabezas que le ha causado la inesperada muerte de Rey. A traves de un dialogo intimo va recreando retazos de las charlas que ella mantuvo con su marido en las semanas previas al suicidio... El talento de Don Delillo se emplea en esta ocasion en una novela sugerente e intimista, un libro magnifico donde traza con mano maestra el desolado paisaje interior de una mujer que debe enfrentarse al tema fundamental de la existencia humana: la aceptacion de la muerte. Con la exquisita precision de una caligrafia japonesa, DeLillo alcanza en las paginas de Body Art una gran tension dramatica utilizando elementos sencillos en apariencia, pero cargados de un extraordinario poder evocador. TAPA RUSTICA

A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award–winning author of White Noise and Underworld. Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls who haunt the fringes of our culture and for its larger-than-life, real-life figures. His language is defiantly, radiantly American. In The Body Artist his spare, seductive twelfth novel, he inhabits the muted world of Lauren Hartke, an artist whose work defies the limits of the body. Lauren is living on a lonely coast, in a rambling rented house, where she encounters a strange, ageless man, a man with uncanny knowledge of her own life. Together they begin a journey into the wilderness of time, love and human perception. The Body Artist is a haunting, beautiful and profoundly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time.

Don DeLillo apresenta o mundo silencioso de Lauren Hartke, uma artista que mescla teatro e mímica e toma o corpo como estátua plástica e viva, último reduto de sua alma fragilizada por um luto recente. LAuren, depois da morte do marido, se fecha para o mundo na praia despovoada onde viviam, no casarão alugado de muitos quartos vazios. ALi ela encontra um homem de origem e idade indefinidas, de existência quase irreal, um ser masculino que parece conhecê-la desde sempre. É Capaz de imitá-la, e a seu companheiro morto, com perfeição sobrenatural. NA companhia do intruso, Lauren Hartke, a artista do corpo, testa os mistérios da percepção humana e os limites do tempo, "a força que nos diz quem somos".NA contracorrente de suas obras anteriores, inventários selvagens e algo surreais da vida americana (o monumental Submundo, por exemplo) DeLillo oferece-nos uma narrativa curta e delicada - embora de leitura igualmente desestabilizadora.

De la chronique des vies ordinaires prises dans l''étau de la guerre froide à la grande - et petite - histoire de la bombe atomique, du légendaire match de base-ball disputé à New York en 1951 à l''épilogue crépusculaire en Asie centrale, Outremonde couvre le dernier demi-siècle de l''histoire américaine. Sur l''immense scène du roman, dans un foisonnement d''intrigues, certaines des figures qui ont marqué cette période - J. Edgar Hoover, Frank Sinatra, entre autres croisent et recroisent les personnages de la fiction. Leurs voix, mêlées, construisent une polyphonie que DeLillo dirige et organise jusque dans ses plus subtiles modulations. Fondant au creuset de son écriture le tout-venant de notre monde, les rebuts de son histoire industrielle comme les errements de son histoire politique, DeLillo fait surgir une éblouissante œuvre d''art, l''autre côté, obscur et souterrain, de l''humanité contemporaine. Don DeLillo est l''un des chefs de file de la littérature américaine et son œuvre lui a valu une réputation internationale. Il a obtenu le National Book Award et le PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction et il est membre de l''American Academy of Arts and Letters. Du même auteur, Actes Sud a déjà publié Les Noms (1990), Chien galeux (1991 et Babel n°84), Americana (1992), Mao II (1992), Joueurs (1993) et L''Etoile de Ratner (1996). Outremonde, qui a connu aux Etats-Unis un immense succès et qui est traduit dans de nombreuses langues, est son onzième roman.

A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo''s most powerful and riveting novel--"a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle)--Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century in America and about two people, an artist and an executive, whose lives intertwine in New York in the fifties and again in the nineties. With cameo appearances by Lenny Bruce, J. Edgar Hoover, Bobby Thompson, Frank Sinatra, Jackie Gleason and Toots Shor, "this is DeLillo''s most affecting novel...a dazzling, phosphorescent work of art" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence, a novel that “reflects our era’s nightmares and hallucinations with all appropriate lurid, tawdry shades” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer) Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual wall. Unfulfilled by the excess of fame and fortune his revolutionary image has wrought, he bolts from his band mid-tour to hole up in a dingy East Village apartment and separate himself from the paranoid machine that propels the culture he has helped create. As faithful fans await messages, Bucky encounters every sort of roiling farce he is trying to escape. Great Jones Street is a penetrating look at rock and roll''s merger of art, commerce and urban decay.

WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD • A profound novel about art, terror, masses, and the individual, from the National Book Award–winning author of White Noise, “one of the most ironic, intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America” (The New York Times) “This novel’s a beauty. A vision as bold and a voice as eloquent and morally focused as any in American writing.”—Thomas Pynchon 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 political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement rooms, his dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman who is Scott’s lover—and Bill’s. An extraordinary novel about words and images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist, Mao II is the work of an ingenious writer at the height of his powers.

From the author of the National Book Award-winning novel White Noise comes an eerily convincing fictional speculation on the events leading up to the assassination of John F. Kennedy In this powerful, unsettling novel, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald’s odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When “history” presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche.

In Players DeLillo explores the dark side of contemporary affluence and its discontents. Pammy and Lyle Wynant are an attractive, modern couple who seem to have it all. Yet behind their "ideal" life is a lingering boredom and quiet desperation: their talk is mostly chatter, their sex life more a matter of obligatory "satisfaction" than pleasure. Then Lyle sees a man killed on the floor of the Stock Exchange and becomes involved with the terrorists responsible; Pammy leaves for Maine with a homosexual couple.... And still they remain untouched, "players" indifferent to the violence that surrounds them, and that they have helped to create. Originally published in 1977 (before his National Book Award-winning White Noise and the recent blockbuster Underworld), Players is a fast-moving yet starkly drawn socially critical drama that demonstrates the razor-sharp prose and thematic density for which DeLillo is renowned today. "The wit, elegance and economy of Don DeLillo''s art are equal to the bitter clarity of his perceptions."--New York Times Book Review

Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo''s bizarre yet fully realized characters in The Names are Kathryn, the narrator''s estranged wife; their son, the six-year-old novelist; Owen, the scientist; and the neurotic narrator obsessed with his own neuroses. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss, and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself, The Names stands with any of DeLillo''s more recent and highly acclaimed works. "The Names not only accurately reflects a portion of our contemporary world but, more importantly, creates an original world of its own."--Chicago Sun-Times "DeLillo sifts experience through simultaneous grids of science and poetry, analysis and clear sight, to make a high-wire prose that is voluptuously stark."--Village Voice Literary Supplement "DeLillo verbally examines every state of consciousness from eroticism to tourism, from the idea of America as conceived by the rest of the world to the idea of the rest of the world as conceived by America, from mysticism to fanaticism."--New York Times

"A whimsical, surrealistic excursion into the modern scientific mind." --The New Yorker One of DeLillo''s first novels, Ratner''s Star follows Billy, the genius adolescent, who is recruited to live in obscurity, underground, as he tries to help a panel of estranged, demented, and yet lovable scientists communicate with beings from outer space. It is a mix of quirky humor, science, mathematical theories, as well as the complex emotional distance and sadness people feel. Ratner''s Star demonstrates both the thematic and prosaic muscularity that typifies DeLillo''s later and more recent works, like The Names (which is also available in Vintage Contemporaries). "His most spectacularly inventive novel." --The New York Times

DeLillo''s Running Dog, originally published in 1978, follows Moll Robbins, a New York city journalist trailing the activities of an influential senator. In the process she is dragged into the black market world of erotica and shady, infatuated men, where a cat-and-mouse chase for an erotic film rumored to "star" Adolph Hitler leads to trickery, maneuvering, and bloodshed. With streamlined prose and a thriller''s narrative pace, Running Dog is a bright star in the modern master''s early career.

“DeLillo’s swift, ironic, and witty cross-country American nightmare doesn''t have a dull or an unoriginal line.”—Rolling Stone The first novel by Don DeLillo, author of the National Book Award–winning White Noise At twenty-eight, David Bell is living the American Dream. He has fought his way to the top, becoming a top television executive who has captivated America’s imagination through the images on their flickering screens. At the height of his success, David becomes disillusioned with the realities of consumerism and mass media and sets out to rediscover reality—and himself. Camera in hand, he journeys across the country in a mad and moving attempt to capture and find meaning in America’s past, present, and future. Don DeLillo delivers a witty and incisive examination of Amerca’s cultural heritage and the complexities of identity in this classic work of postmodernist literary fiction.

"The Day Room", Don DeLillo''s first play, is a black comedy that explores the chaos caused when the onlooker is unsure of the status of a team of medics in a psychiatric unit. Are they really bona fide staff or patients just pretending to be?

The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the perplexed and distracted running back Gary Harkness has periodic fits of nuclear glee; he is fueled and shielded by his fear of and fascination with nuclear conflict. Among oddly afflicted and recognizable players, the terminologies of football and nuclear war—the language of end zones—become interchangeable, and their meaning deteriorates as the collegiate year runs its course. In this triumphantly funny, deeply searching novel, Don DeLillo explores the metaphor of football as war with rich, original zeal.